On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:02:14PM +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > Or you release a new release of that version which provides the garbage
> > collector symbol, Axel suggested.
>
> I'd be very happy to do that, but I'd like to know : is this the scheme Red
> Hat is going to be moving to ? Soname in the package name and a
> Provides : shared-library-package
> in the spec file ? Do we agree on this ?
I hope so. There were no strict arguments against using that
scheme.
> I also think it is a great solution, which adresses correctly all the major
> issues raised here. I'd be very happy to see it become a packaging policy.
Just to summarize:
%{_libdir}/libfoo.so.N* gets packaged to libfooN
%{_libdir}/libfoo-X.Y.so.N* gets packaged to libfoo-X.Y_N
(e.g. if the part before ".so.N*" ends with a digit separate the
library's major version with an underscore).
Both versions have a "Provides: shared-library-package" to help
identifying the disposable-if-not-depended-upon packages.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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