Re: Intent to package: [Biology] seqio library

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 13:11 +0200 1999-03-24, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:52:26AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > seqio is a library (so it will goes into devel/) for writing/reading
> > biosequences files. The same source includes programs which use the library
> > like fmtseq so I will make three packages: seqio, seqio-dev and 
> > seqio-bin (in
> > misc/ while we wait for the science/ section).
>
> Shouldn't this be, by convention,
>
> libseqio42 in libs
> libseqio-dev in devel
> seqio-bin in misc
>
> where 42 is the soname?  (Note that the soname must be there in the
> shared library package name, according to Debian Policy § 4.3.)

Policy says the -dev package is supposed to have the "soname" too.
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