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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable
From:       Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav () redhat ! com>
Date:       2015-02-13 13:11:49
Message-ID: 1423833109.2423.32.camel () redhat ! com
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On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 15:21 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
> Dear all,
> I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I didn't find any.
> Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have
> multiple versions of the same library in distro (by making it
> *naturally* possible) (and with minimal maintenance overhead), and for
> users/developers to get their desired version(s) installed. Proposal
> in brief: instead of packaging libfoo as libfoo, the maintainer *can*
> package it as libfooVER (e.g. libfoo2) and create libfoo/libfoo-devel
> package which depends on libfoo2/libfoo2-devel. Now, libfoo-3 package
> can be packaged as libfoo3, and both can be installed simultaneously
> (assuming that they provide different .so versions, otherwise it could
> be provided as an update to libfoo2). Notice that once libfoo2 is in
> the repos, newer versions (libfoo3/libfoo4)  should not require a
> package review. 

I'm not against it, for the libraries which provide proper symbol
versioning. Otherwise, if you only rely on the soname, you may end up in
a situation where a program crashes because of inter-dependencies which
make it link with both libfoo1 and libfoo2 which provide the same (but
most likely incompatible) symbols.

regards,
Nikos


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