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.
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Richard Guenther