[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kdelibs4-4.9.0-2.mga3

Thu Aug 2 00:09:40 CEST 2012

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> I have to agree here that something is "funny" in the libattica package
+> which ultimately helped to contribute to this issue.
+>
+> e.g. on my system before update (tho' with similar results after):
+>
+> [colin at jimmy ~]$ rpm -q --provides lib64attica0
+> libattica.so.0.3()(64bit)
+> lib64attica0 = 0.3.0-1.mga2
+> lib64attica0(x86-64) = 0.3.0-1.mga2
+> [colin at jimmy ~]$ rpm -ql lib64attica0
+> /usr/lib64/libattica.so.0.3
+> /usr/lib64/libattica.so.0.3.0
+
+> So I can see how this mistake was made and TBH I could have made the
+> same mistake myself (with the caveat that I likely would not have bumped
+> the version of someone else's package with out confirming first and that
+> it should have been obvious from testing and installing the build)
+>
+> But either way this seems like an issue to fix properly (possibly with
+> an upstream fix or some modification to the library policy when the
+> minor version is "presented" like this).
+
+Good catch! Of course it's never the library policy that's wrong. The 
+library major version is apparently 0.4 so the correct package name is
+    lib64attica0.3  for the previous one
+    lib64attica0.4  for the current one
+
+... in the specfile:   %define attica_major 0.4
+
+Can the maintainer of this package please fix this?
+
+To find the version to use, look up the 'soname' of the library. I use:
+   readelf -a /usr/lib64/libattica.so.0.4|grep SONAME
+=>
+...                    Library soname: [libattica.so.0.4]
+
+What follows ".so." is the major version of the library.
+
+
+     Christiaan
+