[Fedora-packaging] invalid soname question?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 17:18:00 +0200,
  Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:35:03 -0600, Bruno wrote:
> 
> > Am I getting the warning below because there is a period in the lib name?
> > mygui-devel.i686: E: invalid-soname /usr/lib/libMyGUI.OgrePlatform.so
> > 
> > If so, is it really an error?
> 
> 
> (far behind with some of my folders)
> 
> As no reply is listed in this thread:
> 
> rpmlint verbose info would say: '''The soname of the library is neither of
> the form lib<libname>.so.<major> or lib<libname>-<major>.so.''',
> 
> The period really isn't the problem, the missing version number is.
> Often it's an error because it bears a higher risk of causing breakage.
> 
> Btw, "mygui" in Fedora 14 is mispackaged related to this. This lib
> has been moved into a private directory %_libdir/MYGUI/ where it is
> placed outside run-time linker's search path. The lib isn't found by
> the -tools and -demos, which are linked with it. Additionally, some
> of the packages suffer from unowned directories.

Thanks. I filed a bug about this. I'll look at getting things fixed for this,
probably in an F16 time frame, as it will be past beta by the time I get
a chance to look at it in depth and I don't want to break other packages.