To Require or not to Require?

[Paul Howarth]

On 08/11/2011 02:03 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Michael Schwendt<mschwendt at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Library SONAME requirement for _external_ builds ought to stay
>> implicit/automatic, but _libraries and subpackages_ are a different
>> problem space. A library update may add stuff without changing its SONAME
>> and while staying compatible with existing executables in external packages.
>> But executables shipped with the library package (in subpackages) may
>> strictly need the very latest library.
>
> There is no difference between "external" packages and subpackages: they
> both will need the new symbol some day.

Indeed, which is why we have version-specific library dependencies on 
libssh2 in curl: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642796

Paul.