On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:58:05 -0700, TK (Toshio) wrote: > > MUST: If a package contains library files with a numeric suffix > > (e.g. libfoo.so.1 or libfoo.so.1.1), extra care must be taken to > > distinguish between libraries needed at run-time and libraries > > needed only when compiling/building software. Library files needed > > only at build-time must be put into a -devel package. [19] > > > I'm not sure if this will clarify things for people making this mistake. > I think these people might not understand how to tell the difference between > a plugin and a library. The big hammer "when in doubt, ask" then probably won't help either. Well, one could try to explain that a symlink "libfoo.so" is what makes the "-lfoo" linker argument work at build-time. And then expand on that and on the exceptions, such as dlopen'ing or non-versioned libs... but I'm not certain how much one can explain without reaching the size of a book due to examples and growth in other sections of the documentation. > What do you think of this? > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Devel_Packages%28draft%29 Too complicated IMO. It tries to cover all cases and still isn't complete. Is the package collection free of library packages that put non-versioned libfoo.so files into %_libdir? There have been cases where these files have been duplicated in the -devel package even. I'm sure we have/had also versioned plugin libs which were put into %_libdir directly with the app loading the non-versioned .so symlinks. That's non-trivial to package also because of the following guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Filtering_Auto-Generated_Requires -> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering A couple of MUST items on that page are violated by existing packages. We've also had -devel packages that contained just .so files without any API headers. And although some pedants will argue that this may be "possible", it is unusual and ought to be explained/justified in the spec file. -- Fedora release 16 (Verne) - Linux 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc16.x86_64 loadavg: 0.09 0.13 0.10 -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
