Re: Packaging sysfsutils: static library?

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

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* Andreas Metzler [Sun, Oct 12 2003, 10:19:40AM]:

> If upstream only ships a static library the Debian maintaner will have
> to take care of versioning the library (pushing the soname when
> necessary) and will probably end up with a debian soname of
> libsysfs.so.10 when upstream releases *their* first shared version
> with soname libsysfs.so.0. 

_That_ should not happen. See Lib Packaging Guide, 
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html
for details.

MfG,
Eduard.
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