On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:23:17AM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Hallo.
In 11.0 we will have a new rules for shared library package names.
It implies a question:
What happens with old shared library packages after increment of soname. We cannot obsolete them (third party can still use them) and we should not not-obsolete them (as it will cause increasing number of orphaned packages in the system).
Is there any solution for it?
Shared library packages (now, you need a way to automatically recognize these) should be auto-removed once there is no dependency left on them.
They can be re-installed if they become required again from an old installation-source or if we decide to put them on a new media anyway because it is widely used (it just won't be called compat-* anymore).
IMHO of course.
You should perhaps experienced the nightmares I just had with Acrobat Reader and its new library dependencies. Then you just do not want that. ;) Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org