On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@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 :)

RichardÂ