* Otto Urpelainen: > Vitaly Zaitsev via devel kirjoitti 6.12.2021 klo 11.01: >> On 06/12/2021 03:39, Bernie Innocenti via devel wrote: >>> What are the current Fedora packaging guideline regarding ABI >>> stability of shared libraries? >> The package maintainer should ask upstream to bump the soversion >> field and if it is rejected, bump it manually in downstream. > > And here is the reference for this: Packaging Guidelines, section > "Downstream .so name Versioning" [1]. It is notable that the same > section also says this: "Under no circumstances should the unversioned > library be shipped in Fedora."
That's not actually true, though, and it does not make much sense. If upstream commits to an ABI, versioning is not even required technically. The Mozilla NSS library is one such example, but there are probably others. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
