Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

h_root wrote:

> +- Split out a shared library subpackage.

> +Source1:        README.SuSE
>  Patch1:         prdtoa.patch
>  Patch3:         pkgconfig.patch
>  BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
> +Requires:       libnspr4 = %{version}
>  
>  %description
>  NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system
> @@ -52,8 +56,26 @@
>  --------
>      Mozilla Foundation <drivers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  
> +%package -n libnspr4
> +Summary:        Netscape Portable Runtime
> +Group:          System/Libraries
> +Requires:       %{name} >= %{version}

I'm wondering about that "split".

I understand and support the shared library policy for most cases but I 
don't support it in this case.

The package now consists of
mozilla-nspr
libnspr4
subpackages where mozilla-nspr only contains README.SuSE (which I have 
yet to see) and libnspr4 which contains three shared libraries with 
different names and without SO-versioning.

If it's really mandatory that the package name is libnspr4 (while 
libnspr4.so is only one of the three libs) then please just do a package 
rename.

So to summarize that looks like a split which effectively only is a 
package rename with some overhead and is only done for the sake of the 
rename.
Personally I think keeping the consistency with older distributions in 
that special case outweighs the value of that change.

Please tell me if I'm wrong and what I don't see.

Wolfgang
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