On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 19:27 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/19/2014 01:25 PM, Honza Horak wrote: > > On 01/15/2014 04:16 PM, Jan Staněk wrote: > > > Looking around to some other projects (e.g. v8) people usually tend to > > use version of the package to be soname version of the library. However, > > I see some questions raised by that approach: > > A pretty detailed discussion on this problem can be found in > "info libtool" > > In short: Using a package's version number as SONAME is a non-helpful > abuse. What counts is "ABI-versions" and "ABI-version compatiblity".
If upstream isn't versioning the shared library correctly, it's relatively unlikely that you can rely on them maintaining ABI compatibility between releases. It's also usually beyond the capabilities of a downstream packager to comprehensively check ABI compatibility between releases. Given both these things, it actually can make sense in several respects to use the package version. If upstream actually is aware of the concept of ABI stability and has some kind of sane system for maintaining it, it really ought to be relatively easy to get them to version the so correctly. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
