Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546169 --- Comment #29 from Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@xxxxxxxxxx> 2009-12-14 05:17:31 EDT --- (In reply to comment #28) > > As said later, there is no ABI change yet, > > Do you know what the term SONAME refers to? > i do > > Does that mean i have to include a copy of libtool in the source ball, > > Yes, and you do so already. > > > I saw a few libraries, but none of them really seem to do it. > > Uh? Dozens if not hundreds of library projects, which produce shared libraries, > use libtool (via autoconf/automake) and include it in their tarballs. > > > Do i really need to call the library as libtar-ng.so.X ? > > Well, see comment 13 and remember that the libtar author would prefer for forks > not to use the libtar name. You've renamed the tarball name, but everything > else still is in the libtar namespace. This will lead to complications if you > ever (a) plan to really touch the SONAME, and even if (b) you plan to extend > the API. I agree, by above. I am going to rename the namespace to libtar-ng, and the libraries name would change too. will submit new package soon. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review