On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 21:24 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote: > Patrice Dumas wrote: > >> c.f. info libtool 'Release numbers' > >> > >> Upstream is using -release, which is a bad idea. > > > > Exactly. In that case I believe it is not that annoying since there won't > > be any -devel pacakge, still it may get annoying for upstream. > > > > That's what I was thinking, it not that big of a problem, since the > libraries aren't split out to devel sub-package, but I was not certain I > was on the right page. Hence my asking for clarification :) > > So should this be fixed or not? If you don't ship a *-devel package, there should not be any need to change anything. > How does one fix these sorts of problems? In general, by contacting upstream and teaching them about their mistakes. If they are capable to learn - fine. If not, you can chose: - Not to ship a package (I usually refuse to approve such packages) - If it's an important package, bite the bullet and ship their crap, but to apply a very conservative update policy - In most cases, this implies not to ship any update during a release) - If it's a non-important package, change the sources (cf. to info libtool, how to supply a proper library versioning) Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
