On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 7:08 PM Scott Talbert <swt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, Ian McInerney wrote: > > > Spurred off of the recent lxqt thread in devel (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/DBK3A4KMS7P3MX6FLXQYNTA665T6X433/) that bumped the soname for another library in the stack without announcing that one, I looked in the packaging guidelines to see if there was anything about how to represent the soname version in the spec and didn't see anything. > > > > I know I have seen some mention on the devel list about using a global > > define to set the so version, and then using that in the %files section > > instead of a glob on the shared library so that an so version bump is > > caught at build time and errors it without packager intervention, but > > that doesn't appear to be listed in the packaging guidelines at all. > > What are people's thoughts on adding a section about handling so > > versions alongside the soname section? It say to use the global > > define/no glob method in the spec (although I haven't decided if I think > > it should be a SHOULD or a MUST criteria). I feel that could help reduce > > these unannounced breakages that seem to crop up and that are annoying > > to scramble to fix afterwards. > > > > Thoughts? Or did I overlook a place in the packaging guidelines that > > already discusses this? > > There's this section[1] that states that you SHOULD NOT use a glob for > %files, but it doesn't talk about using a macro. > > [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_listing_shared_library_files > Something I've done in openSUSE and Mageia that might be worth doing in Fedora is a namespaced glob, where the somajor is specified and the sublevels are globbed. You can see an example of this with my fdk-aac-free package in openSUSE here: https://code.opensuse.org/package/fdk-aac-free/blob/4d35a883c89e7569349fc21664d8c5d1a2de6328/f/fdk-aac-free.spec#_87 Admittedly, it's a lot easier for me to do it this way in openSUSE and Mageia rather than Fedora since I also need to name the library packages with the somajor in them... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
