On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM Gordon Messmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2026-01-16 11:39 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > It is my opinion that offering versioned symbols to expat is so simple that > even a caveman could do it (insert insurance commercial here) > > > Are you willing to be that caveman? 🙂 > > > Yeah, that was the point of writing > https://github.com/gordonmessmer/libexpat/commit/813248dd89d1f9e88661094c11b867aae6bece36 > :) > > If Fedora, as a project, adopts the position that we want more > versioned-symbol libraries, I will participate. I will write docs. I will > write examples. I will write PRs. I can't do it alone, but I think the > average maintainer can participate, too. I honestly don't think this is more > complex than what Debian package maintainers do. >
I think this is an easy position for us to adopt, and we should do it. Bring it to the packaging committee perhaps? > But I also think that's a long term goal, and in the mean time, rpm's elfdeps > should do something better for libraries that haven't adopted symbol > versioning yet. > I don't know if it's all that long-term. I hope with the number of maintainers we have and some dead-simple cave people advice, we can actively get this going. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
