[Bug 1058019] Review Request: utf8proc - Library for processing UTF-8 encoded Unicode strings

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058019



--- Comment #5 from Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> ---
> Should I add one by hand, or is it OK as it is?

A missing soname is a reoccuring topic in the package review queue. The first
question here would be "Which soname would you add, if upstream didn't support
it"? 
No soname (and in particular no soversion) means, for example, that there can
only be one libutf8proc.so at runtime, not multiple parallel installable
versions (in case that would ever become necessary). All programs would depend
on a non-versioned libutf8proc.so, which is a weak dependency. If a future
upgrade touched the ABI of the library, it would break programs at runtime.
Without upstream handling the API/ABI compatibility and the soname versioning,
the responsibility to maintain an own soversioning scheme would be your burden
as the packager.

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