Re: possible mass-filing of bugs, continued, script refined: list of packages that apparently have disparity between package name and shared lib soname

[Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>]

Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:

> Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> immo vero scripsit:
> 
> > > How do you name a package which contains libsigcx0-gtk.so ?
> > > 
> > It really contains libsigcx-gtk.so.<SOVERSION>, so it "should" be
> > named libsigcx-gtk<SOVERSION> (according to libpkg-guide). However, I
> > find it more logical to name it libsigcx<SOVERSION>-gtk. Even more so,
> > since future versions of Yehia (the source pkg) will probably provide
> > libs for GTK 1.2 and 2.0, leading to pkg names
> > libsigcx<SOVERSION>-gtk1.2, for example.
> 
> 
> I wonder how those shared libraries will be called.
> 
> libsigc<SOVERSION>-gtk1.2 for 
> libsigc-gtk1.2.so.0 ??
> 
libsigcx1-gtk1.2 for libsigcx-gtk1.2.so.1

> 
> You seem to think it's logical, but it's not.
> 
> 
Is it stated somewhere in policy that the SOVERSION has to be the last
part of the package name? I can't find that requirement there...

If this is really required, I would change th pkg names to
libsigcx-gtk1.2-1 for libsicx-gtk1.2.so.1.

> > 
> > PS: Unichi: Please don't CC me, as I am on -devel. Thx.
> 
> Who?
> 
s/Unichi/Junichi/. Sorry.

Regards, Andy
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