Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (49 mails)

[Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

> >>> On 04-06-2007 at 13:05, Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ladislav Michnovič wrote:
> > 
> >> The libbz2 package has been renamed to libbz2-1 accordint to the
> policy :
> >> http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy ;.
> > 
> > Admittedly, I've no deep insight into the ongoing hot bzip2
> development. But
> > what exactly are the chances that there will be a need for libbz2-2
> within
> > the next, say, 297 years?
> > 
> 
> Well, I guess we'll not survive the day to have a libbz2-2. But the
> goal of a rule is not to deal with exceptions as exceptions. And the
> rule we have now states clearly that this lib should be called libbz2-1,
> even if we should never have an update on it.
> 
> And I think as long as the rule can be kept upright, it should not have
> an exception for something like this. The point for an exception will be
> early enough... promise :-)

# ls -l lib*-[0-9]*.rpm | grep -v devel | grep -v debug | wc -l
5

vs.

# ls -l lib*.rpm | grep -v devel | grep -v debug | wc -l
382

Ah yes. Seems to be a rule that's really urgently needed.

While I agree that the mentioned scheme makes a lot of sense for, e.g,
libdb, I can't see any practical value in forcing it on existing packages.


Steffen