Hi, Do .so files installed in %{python_sitearch} MUST be filtered? I see one reference at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#private-shared-objec... but the filtering policy is not added to Python packaging guidelines. Also, why rpmlint complains it as warning and not an error? e.g. one case I see is pyorbit.x86_64: W: private-shared-object-provides /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ORBit.so ORBit.so()(64bit) A shared object soname provides is provided by a file in a path from which other packages should not directly load shared objects from. Such shared objects should thus not be depended on and they should not result in provides in the containing package. Get rid of the provides if appropriate, for example by filtering it out during build. Note that in some cases this may require disabling rpmbuild's internal dependency generator. Regards, Parag.