Detecting soname bumps

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 23:24 -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>
> wrote:
>         IMO if a maintainer of a shared lib package goes as far as
>         submitting a
>         koji build without noticing a soname bump in it, the
>         maintainer should
>         seriously consider stepping aside and finding someone else to
>         take
>         proper care of the package.
> 
> If we can convert runtime errors to buildtime errors by enforcing a
> additional check, that's a good thing regardless of where the problem
> lies.   Question is, can rpmbuild do anything automatically instead of
> per spec changes?

This is the kind of thing that's traditionally been in rpmlint-type
tools. It'd probably be trivial to add it to autoqa for e.g., as
informative output on a bodhi update...
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