On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > The best way is for the package to create the link libfoo.so to > libfoo.so.x rather than to libfoo.so.x.y - this will involve less > mucking about when then library version changes. I did this for a version of the xlib/xdevel packages, but was told not to by David Engel. He suggests making the .so -> .so.x.y link be part of the devel package. I didn't argue. Steve Early sde1000@cam.ac.uk