Re: Unannounced SONAME bump in cantor: libcantorlibs.so.23 → 24

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Adam Williamson wrote:
> If a library is not intended for use by other things, it should not be
> installed to the well-known public shared library path. It should be
> installed somewhere private to the application and the application
> should handle including it in its own library path when appropriate.
>
> If it installs to /usr/lib64 then it's a public library, whether the
> author intended that or not...

Well, in practice, if there is no -devel package, the library cannot really 
be used publicly, so I am not convinced that moving it to a private path is 
really necessary in those cases.

But in the case of Cantor, there is a -devel package and LabPlot uses it, 
and Rex Dieter has already fixed Cantor to prevent unannounced and 
uncoordinated soname bumps from happening again:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cantor/c/9939f4a0c2b3a098fa2a85a502e200ec25f85739?branch=master

        Kevin Kofler
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