Detecting soname bumps

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/06/2012 05:39 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
> Are we talking about something like this:
> http://autoqa.fedoraproject.org/results/471217-autotest/virt02.qa/rpmguard/results/libmemcached-1.0.14-.html
> and this:
> http://autoqa.fedoraproject.org/results/471217-autotest/virt02.qa/rpmguard/results/libmemcached-1.0.14-.html
> ?
>
> We're doing very poor job announcing it, but we run the tool on every new package build in Koji.

While Ville makes the appropriate point that the attentive packager 
should catch this, the overworked packager may not :(.  I missed a 
soname bump of one of many libraries (which turned out to be an upstream 
mistake) in a minor version update of openmpi, and it would have been 
good to have caught that before it was built in koji.  I guess you can 
untag builds, but that is even more build-system voodoo to know.

In fact, I tend to try to avoid many wild cards in my packages to help 
notice unexpected changes.

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