Aurelien Bompard wrote:
Hi all
A question to packagers: what would you think of a policy to add the library soname in package libraries ? For example, I have a libkexif package, which provides libkexif.so.0, and at least 3 applications depend on it. Now there is an update to libkexif, which provides libkexif.so.1. I can't update libkexif without updating the applications depending on it. OK, this is probably something that you know much better than me, and that you've run into several times before, so you probably already know the solution. I've searched a bit, and it seems that Mandrake and Debian both have a policy to include the library soname in the package name : http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowToAdvanced#Library_policy http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html
How about a similar policy for Fedora ? Is it the best solution to this
problem ?
Ick. I see the entropic death of packaging, one file per-package. Silly.
73 de Jeff
