packaging libraries with no versioned .so files

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Mar 19 18:27:19 UTC 2009


Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Drawbacks of doing so include problems if/when upstream later implements
> versioning as well and ships a version of a lib using the same soname that
> was earlier used in Fedora for something that's not ABI compatible,

Well, sonames like libgcj.so.8rh (an example which was really used) can
prevent this sort of problems. ;-)

        Kevin Kofler




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