RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Jeff Johnson]

Aurelien Bompard wrote:

>Hi all
>
>A question to packagers: what would you think of a policy to add the library
>soname in package libraries ? For example, I have a libkexif package, which
>provides libkexif.so.0, and at least 3 applications depend on it. Now there
>is an update to libkexif, which provides libkexif.so.1. I can't update
>libkexif without updating the applications depending on it.
>OK, this is probably something that you know much better than me, and that
>you've run into several times before, so you probably already know the
>solution. I've searched a bit, and it seems that Mandrake and Debian both
>have a policy to include the library soname in the package name :
>http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowToAdvanced#Library_policy
>http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html
>
>How about a similar policy for Fedora ? Is it the best solution to this
>problem ?
>  
>

Ick. I see the entropic death of packaging, one file per-package. Silly.

73 de Jeff