Detecting soname bumps

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 07:39 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> Are we talking about something like this:
> http://autoqa.fedoraproject.org/results/471217-autotest/virt02.qa/rpmguard/results/libmemcached-1.0.14-.html
> and this:
> http://autoqa.fedoraproject.org/results/471217-autotest/virt02.qa/rpmguard/results/libmemcached-1.0.14-.html
> ?
> 
> We're doing very poor job announcing it, but we run the tool on every new package build in Koji.

Oh, yeah, exactly that. I forgot we had an rpmguard test.
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