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Re: libdb3.so and libdb-3.so



On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:51:55PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> 
> I cannot find out why `libdb-3' is used and spreaded over the gnome
> packages. Naming soname is sensitive issue, IMHO.
> 

As I said the *upstream* soname is libdb-3.so, and Debian's soname is
libdb3.so.3. The former is not very conformant to soname schemes, the
latter is. Gnome can use whatever it wants to link with it, but the
soname is still libdb3.so.3.

Ben

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