[Bug 546169] Review Request: libtar-ng : tar library

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--- Comment #29 from Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas at redhat.com>  2009-12-14 05:17:31 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> > As said later, there is no ABI change yet,
> 
> Do you know what the term SONAME refers to?
> 
i do 
> > Does that mean i have to include a copy of libtool in the source ball,
> 
> Yes, and you do so already.
> 
> > I saw a few libraries, but none of them really seem to do it.
> 
> Uh? Dozens if not hundreds of library projects, which produce shared libraries,
> use libtool (via autoconf/automake) and include it in their tarballs.
> 
> > Do i really need to call the library as libtar-ng.so.X ?
> 
> Well, see comment 13 and remember that the libtar author would prefer for forks
> not to use the libtar name. You've renamed the tarball name, but everything
> else still is in the libtar namespace. This will lead to complications if you
> ever (a) plan to really touch the SONAME, and even if (b) you plan to extend
> the API.  


I agree, by above. I am going to rename the namespace to libtar-ng, and the
libraries name would change too.
will submit new package soon.

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