Re: dmraid 1.0.0.rc15-1
Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> writes:
> Otavio Salvador ha scritto:
>> Is the API/ABI so unstable that you're using the version on the library
>> package name?
>>
>> I'd much prefer it packaged as:
>>
>> dmraid
>> dmraid-udeb
>> libdmraid-1.0
>> libdmraid-1.0-udeb
>> libdmraid-dev
>
>
>
> According to "Debian library packaging guide", the package name should match the
> shared library SONAME:
>
> # objdump -p /lib/libdmraid.so.1.0.0.rc15 | \
> sed -n -e's/^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | \
> sed -e's/\([0-9]\)\.so\./\1-/; s/\.so\.//'
> libdmraid1.0.0.rc15
>
>
> I asked upstream if is it really upstream's intent to break the ABI and change
> the SONAME on every release. From his answer[1], I hope he will fix in the next
> release.
>
> [1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2009-January/msg00014.html
No objections from my side then.
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