Re: inconsistency in libraries names
On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 02:34:12AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On 24 Jun 1997, Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De> wrote:
>
> > Remarks:
> >
> > [1] the name of a library package often includes the major version
> > number of the library. If so, the 'g' should come before this
> > number, e.g. libgdbmg1 as package name for the libc6 based
> > runtime package for libgdbm.
>
> But we have a lot of libraries called the other way round. (One of
> the most notorious ones is xlib6g). Is that a bug, or just doesn't
> matter?
FWIW, when I first proposed the idea, I intended to have the 'g' after
the soname. IMHO, it doesn't really matter and it would be much more
trouble than it's worth to change any existing packages.
David
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