Re: Policy question: how tight should cross-subpackage Requires be?

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On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:40 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Given a single SRPM generating multiple sub-RPMs, some of which depend
> on each other, how hard should the maintainer try to ensure that
> matching versions of the sub-RPMs are installed?  Possible answers
> include:
> 
> 1. Do nothing, rely on automatically generated requires (eg, the major
> version of a shared library's soname).  Maximum flexibility, maximum
> possibility of allowing installations that don't actually work.

Show me a package that would break if a different version library was
used that has the same soname and I'll show you a developer that needs
to learn how to properly use sonames.

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