On 2022/11/04 11:38, Omar Polo wrote: > While looking at one update recently i've seen one upstream disabling > the soname on OpenBSD because of specialtopics.html; they just > wanted to be nice I guess, but this reminded me of this section of > the faqs. Is it still the case to advise people to actively drop > the soname?
We stopped doing that for base libraries in 2017 and src/usr.bin/libtool in 2018. > -<h3>Avoid DT_SONAME hardcoding</h3> > +<h3>Check DT_SONAME</h3> If it's important, the check should be automated somewhere, perhaps in check-lib-depends. (I don't think this is a thing which most porters wil look at unless there's an actual problem..)
