Detecting soname bumps

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/04/2012 09:32 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> If you're building an update for Fedora, and it has shared libraries or
> versioned provides, look to see if any of the shared library versions
> have changed (or if the versioned provides have changed).

I'm wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea in the packaging guidelines to 
suggest that people list the shared libraries in the %files section like:

%{_libdir}/libname.so.#*

With the soname version number explicitly listed.  That way packagers would 
detect most soname bumps automatically when they do a build.

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