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Bug#509932: shlibs format only addresses one versioning structure



On Thu, Jul  1, 2010 at 12:19:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 9a72be5..2a634b8 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -5654,7 +5654,11 @@ objdump -p /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 | grep SONAME
>  	    </example>
>  	  </footnote>
>  	  The version part is the part which comes after
> -	  <tt>.so.</tt>, so in our case, it is <tt>1</tt>.
> +	  <tt>.so.</tt>, so in our case, it is <tt>1</tt>.  The soname may
> +	  instead be of the form
> +	  <tt><var>name</var>-<var>major-version</var>.so</tt>, such
> +	  as <tt>libdb-4.8.so</tt>, in which case the version would
> +	  be <tt>4.8</tt>.
>  	</p>
>  
>  	<p>
> 
Maybe say "the name would be libdb and the version 4.8".

Either way, seconded.

Cheers,
Julien

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