On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 5:54 PM Brian J. Murrell <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been unable to locate any packaging guidelines/requirements that indicate that a source package providing shared libraries should have those shared libraries packaged into a sub-package with the major version of library appended to the sub-package name (i.e. libfoo1, libfoo2, etc.) -- to facilitate concurrent installation of the differing major versions of the library. > > Is there no such guideline/requirement? Sounds more like the Debian way of packaging shared objects, but it doesn't solve the resulting conflict on libfoo.so in devel packages. There is a guideline for a -lib or -libs sub-package if the libraries may be usable without the whole package, if I remember correctly. Dridi _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx