[Fedora-packaging] Re: Does every package which provides a library requires to provide unversioned copy of the library?

[Petr Pisar]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 01:57:38PM -0000, Mattia Verga wrote:
>  does every package which provides a library requires to provide
> unversioned
>  copy of the library? 
It does not need. But that makes the library pretty hostile to a standard use
of a dynamic library and that is a linking to it at build time.

>  Here the libpasraw library only provides versioned
>  copy of the library. It's just a private library which is used only by other
>  projects from the same author which require the library only at runtime.
>   
Then the library should not be installed into the standard path (%{_libdir}).
If the file is not for a public use, it only polutes the name space.

-- Petr