[Fedora-packaging] Re: libfoo.$major requirements/guidelines

[Brian J. Murrell]

> Create a libfoo1 package, have it include the necessary library files
> (and perhaps a -devel subpackage if you wish for things to compile
> against it) and update the base libfoo package to the new version.

Ok.  So you can/do create a libfoo$major subpackage at times when it's necessary.  It's just not required/recommended to always package libs that way.  Fair enough.

I guess it just seems to me that it would be more consistent/less surprising to have libraries always follow this scheme rather than to do so only intermittently.  But that's just my 2 cents.