On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 20:33 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote: > > As an user, some way to, but mostly adding some policy, to have multiple > > sonames of a library installed. Usually only useful to avoid a window of > > time > > with broken dependencies, but sometimes useful to have some package > > that only works with an older version of some library functional, without > > blocking an update. > > Seconded. Although old and possibly insecure libraries shouldn't be kept > around indefinitely, it really ought to be possible to keep the > previous version available for some time. We already do it with kernels, > so doing it with libraries can't be too difficult. There must be a > better way to handle soname bumps like the one in LibPNG that is being > discussed right now. > > If automatic cleanup of dependencies gets implemented, then an old > version of a library should be removed when no installed packages > require it anymore.
I don't see why handling this on the package management side seems advisable. We already have a perfectly reasonable distro mechanism for shipping multiple sonames of a library if we want to do that. We just try to avoid it wherever possible, because it's not a good idea. I'm not a genius, but I can't see a way to do this on the package management side which wouldn't be a horrible hack job. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
