Re: Unannounced soname bump: gnome-desktop3

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > gnome-desktop3 was updated a week ago to 3.27.90, which bumped ABI from > .so.12 to .so.17. AFAICS no notice was given, nor am I sure that this > was even noticed by the maintainer, because once again: > > %{_libdir}/lib*.so.* > > I have rebuilt my affected package. The wildcard in the files list is particularly dangerous because GNOME packages are updated by a script; humans only look when there are build failures. And unlike most other GNOME libraries, gnome-desktop does not pretend to have a stable API. I've junt changed it to: %{_libdir}/libgnome-desktop-3.so.17* Belatedly, I realize that will break if the soname is ever bumped to 170. What is considered the best practice for this?