Explicit versioning of library names [was Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit]

Vít Ondruch vondruch at redhat.com
Fri Apr 5 08:53:53 UTC 2013


Dne 4.4.2013 20:07, Toshio Kuratomi napsal(a):
>
> There is also an unwritten (I think it's unwritten.  A quick search didn't
> find it in the guidelines) rule that in Fedora, the current version of the
> library carries the base name.  Older libraries carry the version in the name.

Interesting ... it seems time is changing. I made several attempts to 
make this unwritten rule to be written, the last wrap up and my latest 
proposal can be found here: 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2012-October/008740.html

Vít


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