[Mageia-dev] Library policy query: What do we do when SONAME includes both major and minor? (Re: [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kdelibs4-4.9.0-2.mga3)

Thu Aug 2 10:28:28 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 01/08/12 23:09 did gyre and
+gimble:
+> 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.
+
+Is that really the correct definition of what a "major" version is?
+
+I always thought the major was just the first number.
+
+The library policy certainly doesn't mention "double digit majors" or
+similar.
+
+Is this something upstream is doing deliberately or is it just an oversight?
+
+Col
+
+
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