On 08/11/2011 02:03 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Michael Schwendt<mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Library SONAME requirement for _external_ builds ought to stay >> implicit/automatic, but _libraries and subpackages_ are a different >> problem space. A library update may add stuff without changing its SONAME >> and while staying compatible with existing executables in external packages. >> But executables shipped with the library package (in subpackages) may >> strictly need the very latest library. > > There is no difference between "external" packages and subpackages: they > both will need the new symbol some day. Indeed, which is why we have version-specific library dependencies on libssh2 in curl: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642796 Paul. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
