On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 15:21 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > Dear all, > I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I didn't find any. > Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have > multiple versions of the same library in distro (by making it > *naturally* possible) (and with minimal maintenance overhead), and for > users/developers to get their desired version(s) installed. Proposal > in brief: instead of packaging libfoo as libfoo, the maintainer *can* > package it as libfooVER (e.g. libfoo2) and create libfoo/libfoo-devel > package which depends on libfoo2/libfoo2-devel. Now, libfoo-3 package > can be packaged as libfoo3, and both can be installed simultaneously > (assuming that they provide different .so versions, otherwise it could > be provided as an update to libfoo2). Notice that once libfoo2 is in > the repos, newer versions (libfoo3/libfoo4) should not require a > package review. I'm not against it, for the libraries which provide proper symbol versioning. Otherwise, if you only rely on the soname, you may end up in a situation where a program crashes because of inter-dependencies which make it link with both libfoo1 and libfoo2 which provide the same (but most likely incompatible) symbols. regards, Nikos -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
