On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 04-06-2007 at 13:05, Steffen Winterfeldt
wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ladislav Michnovič wrote: The libbz2 package has been renamed to libbz2-1 accordint to the policy : http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy .
Admittedly, I've no deep insight into the ongoing hot bzip2 development. But what exactly are the chances that there will be a need for libbz2-2 within the next, say, 297 years?
Well, I guess we'll not survive the day to have a libbz2-2. But the goal of a rule is not to deal with exceptions as exceptions. And the rule we have now states clearly that this lib should be called libbz2-1, even if we should never have an update on it.
And I think as long as the rule can be kept upright, it should not have an exception for something like this. The point for an exception will be early enough... promise :-)
# ls -l lib*-[0-9]*.rpm | grep -v devel | grep -v debug | wc -l 5 vs. # ls -l lib*.rpm | grep -v devel | grep -v debug | wc -l 382 Ah yes. Seems to be a rule that's really urgently needed. While I agree that the mentioned scheme makes a lot of sense for, e.g, libdb, I can't see any practical value in forcing it on existing packages. Steffen