Dne 11. 09. 20 v 9:48 Florian Weimer napsal(a):
> * Tom Hughes via devel:
>
>> On 11/09/2020 07:13, Ondrej Dubaj wrote:
>>
>>> There seemed to be no big reason for moving the libraries to the
>>> main package in the past, so I consider f34 as a good candidate for
>>> such a change. It would be great, if  you share your opinions and
>>> concerns for this topic.
>> Tom Lane has explained the reason on the ticket, it's because the
>> library is often dlopened by a client application instead of being
>> linked to.


"often" is relative. I see this mentioned for following packages:


java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc

java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc

java-1.5.0-bea-jdbc


Which probably shares common history and at least one of them admitted
the mistake [1] and started to use the versioned .so file.

So are there any other cases?


> Yes, that is sufficient reason not to do the move.  Third-party
> applications will break.


And they should be fixed. I understand there is never the right time to
fix this, but if not now, then when?


> Some people also really dislike installing
> *-devel packages in production, so there might not be an easy fix for
> them.
>
> The library probably should not have a versioned soname in the first
> place, with backwards compatibility achieved by different means.  But
> that does not matter now.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian


Vít


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215777#c24

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