Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Marcus Rueckert <darix@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

1. good ways of doing library policy compatible packages

Since quite some time we have some policy for packaging shared
libraries. [1]

We all had lots of fun and work with it already. There is some way to
save some work for all of us. I will use libetpan as an example here.

in the current factory package we have libetpan11 and libetpan-devel.
and in the queue there is an update that would bump the soname to
libetpan.so.13. now it would be renaming a package in autobuild, rename
the spec, rename the changes file and check in the new package.

To save us all a bit work we slightly change the packaging:

we rename the package back to libetpan and let the spec generate an
empty main package. Additionally we have 2 subpackages (libetpan13 and
libetpan-devel).

Of course you should add a provides to the libetpan13 package:
Provides: %{name} = %{version}

2. Renaming a package

Just a short not how the proper provides/obsoletes should look like in
the usual case -> [2]

with kind regards

    darix

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade_Dependencies#Renaming_a_package

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