On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 15:02 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselk...@redhat.com
> > wrote:
> > On 2016-02-01 07:45, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Hi, folks. Looks like there was an unannounced soname bump in
> > > Rawhide
> > > today: libpsl.so.0 -> libpsl.so.5, in package libpsl. Looks like
> > > the
> > > only other package using that lib is wget, so that needs
> > > rebuilding.
> > > I'll try a straight rebuild, if that doesn't work I'll contact
> > > the
> > > maintainer.
> > >
> > This is the hazard of using %{_libdir}/*.so.* in %files. Is there
> > any reason why such a syntax should NOT be formally discouraged in
> > the packaging guidelines?
> That would only fix problem where upstream is well disciplined and
> properly manages soversions.
>
> If I have any doubt I always build test packages and do a comparison
> with abi-compliance-checker.
Sure, but handling it most of the time is better than handling it none
of the time. I agree with Yaakov that the guidelines should discourage
spec files using globs for soversions.
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