On Mon, 2022-01-03 at 19:30 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > 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... we do this in several packages, one is opencv https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/opencv/blob/rawhide/f/opencv.spec#_395 -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ 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
