[Fedora-packaging] Automatic detection of Requires and versions

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Jan 7 22:08:38 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:38:52PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> If the SONAMEs are the same, the libraries MUST be compatible.
> 
> => No need for a package dep.

They can be backward compatible and not forward compatible and have the
same sonames. It is the case with usual libtool versionning. Though, as
Axel said it may be a bit pointless since the updated library will be in
the updated repo.

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Pat




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