libgcrypt soname bump in rawhide

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Fri Feb 28 19:51:28 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 19:37 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 28 February 2014 15:38, Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
> > This should not break builds of any reasonably current software.
> 
> libgcrypt.so.11()(64bit) is needed by (installed)
> google-chrome-stable-33.0.1750.117-1.x86_64
> 
> I guess not much we can do there, other than maintain a compat package
> -- right? :(

Since google-chrome-stable is not part of the distribution I do not see
why we should keep a compat package.

OTOH important libraries that still break soname instead of using symbol
versioning in 2014 really make me frown loudly...

Simo.

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