[Bug 222042] Review Request: GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

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Summary: Review Request: GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222042





------- Additional Comments From bugs.michael at gmx.net  2007-02-10 07:11 EST -------
> BTW, is it so hard to add shlib support ?

In a fork done by the packager? Yes. It can be hard to get it right,
because some upstream developers prefer static libs as long as they
like to break the API/ABI often. In that case, the package maintainer
would need to examine upstream releases very closely and bump the
SONAMEs appropriately. If not done correctly, e.g. if a simple
libfoo.so or libfoo.so.0 is used and if all deps are rebuild with
every new release of the library, there is hardly any added value in
using custom shared libs. In a worst case, upstream publishes shared
libs later, which conflict with the packager's fork in what SONAMEs
are used.

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