Re: Need help with strange ldd output

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

> > liballeg-3.9.33.so
> > liballeg.so.3 -> liballeg-3.9.33.so
> > liballeg.so -> liballeg.so.3 (in the -dev package)
> > 
> > But the SONAME (as shown by the output in 'objdump') should be liballeg.so.3.
> 
> Is that a binding convention?
> 
> As I understood it, the point is that sonames change when the ABI breaks.
> 
> However, for a swiftly moving package, it make make sense to change
> the soname every minor release, not every major one.

That's fine, so long as the soname ends with the ABI version, and not .so.
That's mainly the convention I was trying to convey.

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