On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselk...@redhat.com>
wrote:
> On 2016-02-01 07:45, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> Hi, folks. Looks like there was an unannounced soname bump in Rawhide
>> today: libpsl.so.0 -> libpsl.so.5, in package libpsl. Looks like the
>> only other package using that lib is wget, so that needs rebuilding.
>> I'll try a straight rebuild, if that doesn't work I'll contact the
>> maintainer.
>>
>
> This is the hazard of using %{_libdir}/*.so.* in %files. Is there any
> reason why such a syntax should NOT be formally discouraged in the
> packaging guidelines?
That would only fix problem where upstream is well disciplined and properly
manages soversions.
If I have any doubt I always build test packages and do a comparison with
abi-compliance-checker.
Thanks,
Richard
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