Richard Guenther wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Wolfgang Rosenauer 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
Richard Guenther wrote: 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org