Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (98 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:32:19PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:38:23PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't the shared libraries be split into separate packages
> > > > and not simply grouped by .so.6.0 and .so.5.0?
> > >
> > > Those libraries *are* splitted into separate packages, we
> > > have libncurses5 for 5.6  and libncurses6 for 6.0.
> >
> > But you have libncurses.so.5.6 and libncursesw.so.5.6 in 
> > libncurses5 and libncursest.so.6.0 and libncursestw.so.6.0
> > in libncurses6, right?  I was suggesting to have libncursest6,
> > libncursestw6, libncursesw5 and libncurses5.
>
> This is a nogo because this will cause a huge rate of
> bugzillas due missing libraries during build.

I don't think so.  How should the shared library packages cause
missing libraries during build?

> It will be only the difference between the ABI version
> and hold in mind that we have already a libncurses5 and
> not a libncurses5 and libncursesw5.

Well, past mistakes are not an excuse for new ones ;)

Richard.
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