[Bug 479978] Review Request: newmat - C++ matrix library

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--- Comment #20 from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi>  2009-08-31 03:48:23 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> AFAIS, (In reply to comment #18)
> > AFAIK we don't add soname's, since that really should be done by upstream.
> It's correct that it's hardly possible to invent SONAMEs if upstream doesn't,
> but shipping a shared library without any SONAME doesn't work either.
> 
> Or differently: Letting both the base package and the *-devel package contain
> *.so, doesn't work.  

The guidelines are quite clear on that one:

MUST: If a package contains library files with a suffix (e.g. libfoo.so.1.1),
then library files that end in .so (without suffix) must go in a -devel
package.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#DevelPackages

Unversioned shared libraries are placed in the main package.

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