Dne 11. 09. 20 v 9:48 Florian Weimer napsal(a): > * Tom Hughes via devel: > >> On 11/09/2020 07:13, Ondrej Dubaj wrote: >> >>> There seemed to be no big reason for moving the libraries to the >>> main package in the past, so I consider f34 as a good candidate for >>> such a change. It would be great, if you share your opinions and >>> concerns for this topic. >> Tom Lane has explained the reason on the ticket, it's because the >> library is often dlopened by a client application instead of being >> linked to. "often" is relative. I see this mentioned for following packages: java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc java-1.5.0-bea-jdbc Which probably shares common history and at least one of them admitted the mistake [1] and started to use the versioned .so file. So are there any other cases? > Yes, that is sufficient reason not to do the move. Third-party > applications will break. And they should be fixed. I understand there is never the right time to fix this, but if not now, then when? > Some people also really dislike installing > *-devel packages in production, so there might not be an easy fix for > them. > > The library probably should not have a versioned soname in the first > place, with backwards compatibility achieved by different means. But > that does not matter now. > > Thanks, > Florian Vít [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215777#c24 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
