Detecting soname bumps

[Jindrich Novy]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:51:17AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 09:32 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> >If you're building an update for Fedora, and it has shared libraries or
> >versioned provides, look to see if any of the shared library versions
> >have changed (or if the versioned provides have changed).
> 
> I'm wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea in the packaging
> guidelines to suggest that people list the shared libraries in the
> %files section like:
> 
> %{_libdir}/libname.so.#*
> 
> With the soname version number explicitly listed.  That way
> packagers would detect most soname bumps automatically when they do
> a build.

+1

This is an easy way how rpmbuild will whack a packager when the
soname is bumped without his awareness before it breaks deps on
koji side.

Jindrich

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