On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 19:41 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Kevin Kofler
<kevin.kofler(a)chello.at>
wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote:
> > Is it time to update the packaging guidelines to enforce setting a
> > "%global sover <X>" and using it in %files?
> >
> > If nothing else it should at least be documented as a best practice.
>
> Not yet another bureaucratic guideline making it harder to maintain
> packages!
>
> Hardcoded soversions in specfiles are a pain!
Unannounced soname bumps are a pain :)
Right. It's not "bureaucratic" if it's a specific response to a real
problem that keeps happening. That's more or less the *opposite* of
bureaucratic.
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