soname change policy proposal
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Jun 27 12:23:10 UTC 2006
Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at ...> writes:
> 1) When a package update would cause an soname change then a compat
> package with the old libraries must be provided for all release repos,
> that is for all repos except devel.
IMHO this is ridiculous. Even Core doesn't follow such a strict policy. This is
going to hinder critical security upgrades for packages such as SeaMonkey, and
also leave rapidly-changing libraries (which are the ones needing version
upgrades the most!) stale at old versions (and you can quickly end up with
dozens of compat packages for the same library if it is _really_ rapidly
changing). I think the current policy of simply getting packages rebuilt if a
soname changes (which is also what is done when Core upgrades a soname) works
well.
Kevin Kofler
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