Re: Feedback wanted for a proposed improvement to RPM's ELF dependency generator

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 06:01:12PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 04:21:55PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > On  2023-02-18 15:53, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > >I see a big hole in that problem (assuming that I understand
> > >Things correctly): What happens to packages where this .so.x.y.z
> > >pattern does not match their actual version?
> > 
> > In this implementation, there is no relationship between the version
> > of the shared object and the package version.
> > 
> > libnghttp2-1.51.0-1.fc37, for example, will "Provides:
> > libnghttp2.so.14()(64bit) = 14.24.1", and any package that is linked
> > to that shared object will "Requires: libnghttp2.so.14()(64bit) >=
> > 14.24.1"
> 
> Does it have to be something which looks so much like it might be a
> version number?  For example it could be helpful for debugging if the
> generated requires was something like:
> 
>   Requires: libnghttp2.so.14()(64bit) >= soname.14.24.1
> 
> or:
> 
>   Requires: libnghttp2.so.14()(64bit)(soname) >= 14.24.1
> 
> (if that is possible)

BTW I think the proposal overall is great, and solves a real problem
I've encountered often.

Rich.

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