Upstream says there is a packaging error in one of my packages, pypoker-eval-devel.
Upstream claims that the .so file should not be in the devel package but should be in the main package.
I told upstream about our .so rule saying .so files should be in -devel, but he said this is not the case for python packages, and promptly demonstrated that the libxml2-python package is similar and that this package puts the .so files in the main pacakge on Fedora as well.
So is libxml2-python package in error, or is upstream correct and there are exceptions to the .so rule for python packages?
Upstream informs me that my package will break unless I put the .so file in the main package.
On Sunday 10 September 2006 05:43, Christopher Stone wrote:
Upstream claims that the .so file should not be in the devel package but should be in the main package.
I told upstream about our .so rule saying .so files should be in -devel, but he said this is not the case for python packages, and promptly demonstrated that the libxml2-python package is similar and that this package puts the .so files in the main pacakge on Fedora as well.
Only .so SYMLINKS should be in the -devel package, the symlinks that are made to the actual libraries that would be in the main package. Python modules often have unversioned shared object files (.so) that are part of the module. They are not development symlinks and they SHOULD be packaged in the main package.
On Sunday 10 September 2006 09:11, Jesse Keating wrote:
Only .so SYMLINKS should be in the -devel package, the symlinks that are made to the actual libraries that would be in the main package.
Whoops, that's not quite right I think... That's the general idea but I'm sure there are exceptions.
On Sep 10, 2006, Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com wrote:
On Sunday 10 September 2006 09:11, Jesse Keating wrote:
Only .so SYMLINKS should be in the -devel package, the symlinks that are made to the actual libraries that would be in the main package.
Whoops, that's not quite right I think... That's the general idea but I'm sure there are exceptions.
The exception I'm aware of is when the .so name is used for dlopening.
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