any other suggestions here ? I will be glad, if maintainers of dependent packages will share their opinions. If we fix this issue and it breaks dependent packages, simple workaround via symlink is available until the problems will be solved, so I see no reason for ignoring this problem.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:40 PM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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