Re: Silent changes in Packaging Guidelines

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On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 12:10 PM Ian McInerney via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But the packaging guidelines already mentioned not globbing the soname part of the files, so this change makes no difference to that use case. Extending the no-globbing rule to other directories like datadir seems very excessive. Why should we have to list all files a package wants to ship as its data?

The soname always (mostly) made sense since
it addressed one of the common issues of soname
bumps that were often missed that could impact
other packages (we still regularly get "unannounced
soname bump" emails, which suggests that that
package did not have an explicit soname spec;
I would hope one of the fixes in that case updated
the spec file to address the soname glob).  Sure,
some packagers are very good about the entire
soname bump issue, but I believe that adding the
suspenders to the belt was not overly onerous.

On the other hand, executable and include files
are going to be interesting.  I, for one, look forward
to seeing the response(s) from someone such as
the kernel packager who now SHOULD explicitly
identify all the include files in the kernel-headers
package (to pick on an obvious example).
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