On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 10:56:30AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 2023-02-20 10:01, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >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 > > > You mean the literal string "soname", right? Yes. > I don't know a reason > that wouldn't work off the top of my head, but I also can't think of > a reason that it would add information that wasn't inferred in the > current iteration. One reason we might want to stick with something > that looks like a version is that we might need to extend the system > to allow an epoch in the future (though I really hope that isn't > necessary.) I mean if I'm looking at an error message, it might help to know that I should look at the SONAME instead of trying to work out where the weird version number had come from. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
