Bug 804698 - Wrong packaging of guichan-0.8.2
Summary: Wrong packaging of guichan-0.8.2
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: guichan
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Gwyn Ciesla
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2012-03-19 15:51 UTC by Erik Schilling
Modified: 2012-08-06 20:01 UTC (History)
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Description Erik Schilling 2012-03-19 15:51:23 UTC
Hello,

during the development of guichan the name of the libary accidently got named to 0.8.1 (should have been 0.8). When 0.8.2 came out the libary name stayed at 0.8.1.so since it was compatible and only contained some fixes. But in Fedora this libary name got included as/usr/lib/libguichan-0.8.2.so.1  which actually should be 0.8.1.

Best regards,
Erik Schilling

Comment 1 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-03-19 16:34:06 UTC
It looks like it's picking this up from our build flags.  There aren't too many packages that require this, so I could coordinate a rebuild easily, though only for rawhide.  How do I specify the solib release in your configure or Make?

For existing releases, this shouldn't cause any issues, and all our packages that need this we built to also require the wrong soname.

Comment 2 Erik Schilling 2012-03-19 16:40:41 UTC
It should be set by default:
http://gitorious.org/guichan/mainline/blobs/0.8/configure.in#line30

Comment 3 Thorbjørn Lindeijer 2012-03-19 16:50:10 UTC
Back when we released 0.8.2, we make sure to keep binary compatibility with 0.8.1, but due to the solib already including "0.8.1", we decided to keep it on that version otherwise the binary compatibility would falter at that point.

See my commit here:

http://gitorious.org/guichan/mainline/commit/430e4c70c5e141050e8d5836b2a9a25ce8e8f614

But it seems that a packager either found an issue with this or was not aware of our intention, when this patch was introduced:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=guichan.git;a=commitdiff;h=dfa1ab37e54871af1f441df69e5016f44a250853

As far as I can see, that patch should just be dropped.

Comment 4 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-03-19 16:55:44 UTC
Ok, but GUICHAN_MICRO_VERSION is set to 2.  When I ./configure ; make a vanilla tarball, it builds 0.8.1.  When I build it in the RPMs, I get 0.8.2.  Something else is happening.  

If I run autoreconf -if prior to config, I get 0.8.1.

I'll get this out to rawhide, and then rebuild the other packages.

Do you forsee a release coming that would re-align versioning and solib name?

Comment 5 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-03-19 16:56:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Back when we released 0.8.2, we make sure to keep binary compatibility with
> 0.8.1, but due to the solib already including "0.8.1", we decided to keep it on
> that version otherwise the binary compatibility would falter at that point.
> 
> See my commit here:
> 
> http://gitorious.org/guichan/mainline/commit/430e4c70c5e141050e8d5836b2a9a25ce8e8f614
> 
> But it seems that a packager either found an issue with this or was not aware
> of our intention, when this patch was introduced:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=guichan.git;a=commitdiff;h=dfa1ab37e54871af1f441df69e5016f44a250853
> 
> As far as I can see, that patch should just be dropped.

Oh, I'll try that.  See question in #4.

Comment 6 Bruno Wolff III 2012-03-19 17:37:13 UTC
It's been a while, but my memory is that I noticed a mismatch between the microversion used for the package and the library and thought that was a mistake.
I don't believe my change was based on bad interactions with other packages.

Comment 7 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-03-19 17:43:35 UTC
Reasonable.  I don't expect this to be a major issue.

Comment 8 Thorbjørn Lindeijer 2012-03-19 17:48:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Do you forsee a release coming that would re-align versioning and solib name?

As you can see in the configure.in, there is a todo about removing the ".1" part for 0.9 (with the idea to keep binary compatibility in patch versions). However, there is currently no active development of Guichan so this release is unlikely to be any time soon.

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has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is 
Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no 
longer maintained.  At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version'
of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX.

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occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.)

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