RFC: Soname in rpm name

Mike Hearn mike at navi.cx
Mon Jan 24 19:21:59 UTC 2005


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:33:24 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Because while it works for the distro, slam dunking does not work for
> 3rd party packing. In fact, slam-dunking is not gonna work for 2nd party
> packaging like Fedora Extras. What will happen instead (imho) is that 
> library sonames simply won't change, even if they should.

This whole mess could be avoided if libkexif had not broken backwards
compatibility of course ... it's perhaps not too late to go back and do a
new release that doesn't do so?




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