[Bug 193896] Review Request: libreadline-java - Java wrapper for the GNU-readline library

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Summary: Review Request: libreadline-java - Java wrapper for the GNU-readline library


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193896





------- Additional Comments From tibbs at math.uh.edu  2006-06-23 18:29 EST -------
(In reply to comment #2)

> Can you elaborate on why an unversioned .so cannot go into the main package?

The simple answer is that the guidelines demand it: see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines:

- MUST: If a package contains library files with a suffix (e.g. libfoo.so.1.1),
then library files that end in .so (without suffix) must go in a -devel package.

The more difficult answer is that I don't completely understand it myself; I
believe it has to do with the fact that applications must link against the
versioned .so, leaving the unversioned one unneeded for regular operation, along
with the question of what the unversioned .so would mean in the face of a future
potential compat-libreadlinejava080 package.

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