RFC: Soname in rpm name

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Jan 27 14:01:41 UTC 2005


Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> Sounds interesting. On the other hand, maybe we could do it manually (from a
> packager's point of view) : if you package library foo, and you know that
> version 0.1 is not supported anymore (noone knows that better than you
> since you maintain it), you can add an Obsoletes tag to your libfoo5
> package, and force the removal.
> Would that solve Jeff's issue ?

Or you release a new release of that version which provides the garbage 
collector symbol, Axel suggested.




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