Re: Re: Library soversion numbers in SuiteSparse
* Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> [2008-02-10 13:07]:
> Why not just use the whole library version in the soname and package
> name? For example, libsuitesparse has lib*.so.3.1.0 which is the
> soname, and forget about .so.3 . Then the soname and package name
> match, so lintian is happy, and if upstream changes the interface
> between 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 (let alone 3.2.0), the soname and package names
> change, right?
>
> This is what I do with petsc, spooles, hypre, parmetis, my netgen shlib
> patch, and will have to do for opencascade... And it's lintian-clean.
Yes, this is the right thing to do for now, I think. Thanks for the
suggestion, I will implement it in suitesparse.
--
Rafael
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