Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Guenther wrote:
> 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?

So as we found out that there is no reason for it can we have the old 
structure back please?
I'm open to discuss it further per PM or whatever.

Wolfgang
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