Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:

> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > 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).
>
> But that's not the goal ;-) There will be no nspr5 for the forseeable future.
> At least that's a statement from the upstream maintainers. NSPR is feature
> complete and in minor enhancements and bugfix mode.
> The same is almost true for mozilla-nss where the same change was done while
> there could be a NSS4 version in the far future because features are still
> implemented there.

Uh, so _what_ was the goal?  Certainly not following the shared library
policy, no?

Richard.

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