Re: shlibs and lintian

[Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Zvi Dubitzky <DUBI@il.ibm.com> wrote:
> I am having a package for libraries (several)
> The package is called libvae (libvae_1.3_amd64.deb)  and include the
> libraries (libvae.so.2.0 , libvaeUtil.so.2.0  ..)
soname major version: 2; minor version: 0; patch: ? (I assume 0 also)
> The shlibs is as follows :
> libvae 2 libvae  (>= 1.3)
dependencies refer to the version number on the soname.
libvae 2 libvae
should work if you really want (>0.0).

[BTW: better call your package libvae2_1.3-1]
And make sure that you understand library version numbers
http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_91.html