Bug#3321: libgdbm.so version number...

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

> Package: libgdbm1
> Version: 1.7.3-11
> 
> Hi, 
> 	I believe that the shared library exported by this package
> (libgdbm.so.1.7.3) is basically the same thing that other linux
> distributions (slackware and redhat in particular) choose to ship as
> libgdm.so.2.0.0 ... Perhaps Debian too should do this? In the current
> state, dynamically linked programs compiled under other distributions
> look for a libgdbm.so.2 under debian and fail because they can't find
> it. 

That is a bug in their distributions.
At http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jo95004/liblist.html Daniel Barlow 
(maintainer of GCC-HOWTO and such) maintains the List of Libraries,
which is intended to get .so names consistent accross distributions.

It's entry for gdbm is:
gdbm 

    Description: The GNU dbm library 
    Author/Maintainer: 
    Keeper of the soname: Christopher Wiles <wileyc@moscow.com> 
    Source from: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu 
    Binaries from: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs 
    Filename: libgdbm.so.1.7.3 soname: libgdbm.so.1 
    Building as a shared library: This patch, also included in the binary 
      distribution. 
    Notes: 
    More information: 

Greetings,
Ray
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