ho to check package dependencies

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed Apr 26 15:25:34 UTC 2017


On 04/26/2017 01:33 AM, Julius Milan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> How can I check if my package has right minimal dependencies?
> Lets say I have dependency on some library (libA), but while development nobody
> checked the version requirements and added new code dependent on newer version of libA.
> 
> When user updates my package, troubles occurs due to bad requirement on libA, very easy to occur bug with very sad user faces. :)
> (Exactly explained here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325489)

Bug is private so I can't see it.

> My question is, how can I check if my version requirements are right?
> I couldn't find easy answer myself.

libA would need to properly implement SO and symbol versioning to really get
this right.

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