Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:

> 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.

The libraries seem to be versioned using a suffix in the name.  But
the mozilla-nspr package should be dropped and ...

> 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.

... as it is this should indeed have been a simple package rename.  Also
the name is confusing (it isn't a proper shlib package), so
mozilla-nspr4 would have been my choice (if the goal is to be able to
install mozilla-nspr5 or whatever version in parallel).

Richard.

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Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>
Novell / SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex
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