On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:41:34AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > Upstream says there is a packaging error in one of my packages, > pypoker-eval-devel. > > Upstream claims that the .so file should not be in the devel package > but should be in the main package. Would you mind providing a bit more context about the package, maybe a source rpm? > I told upstream about our .so rule saying .so files should be in > -devel, but he said this is not the case for python packages, and > promptly demonstrated that the libxml2-python package is similar and > that this package puts the .so files in the main pacakge on Fedora as > well. > > So is libxml2-python package in error, or is upstream correct and > there are exceptions to the .so rule for python packages? > > Upstream informs me that my package will break unless I put the .so > file in the main package. Which .so file are you talking about? python will dlopen modules that are .so. In the case of libxml2-python, I see a libxml2mod.so. Well, that's a library that is directly imported by python, it is _not_ a library used by other binaries that would link against it. Here's the example: >>> import libxml2mod >>> libxml2mod <module 'libxml2mod' from '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.so'> If that's the case with your .so file, then yes, upstream is right, it makes absolutely no sense to put the .so file in the -devel package, because it provides functionality required by that python module. In general, python modules don't have to have a -devel package (there may be exceptions to this rule but I can't think of one off the top of my head). Before you ask 'then why is there a libxml2-devel', that is for applications linking against libxml2.so in /usr/lib, or including header files from the C API, it has absolutely nothing to do with python. HTH, Misa -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
