libspiro soname bump

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Feb 3 04:33:40 UTC 2015


Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Just a heads up that I am building a libspiro update in rawhide (only)
> that has a soname bump in it. The only thing in Fedora that uses
> libspiro is fontforge and I intend to rebuild that against it as well.

Is it really worth announcing the soname bump in such a case? A library only 
used by one application can effectively be treated as private, especially if 
you're taking care of the rebuild.

(I'm pointing this out because this isn't the first soname bump of this kind 
being announced.)

        Kevin Kofler



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