Re: Packaging sysfsutils: static library?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * 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.

-v please. What should not happen? Shipping a shared library in Debian
if upstream only ships a static one because they are still stabilizing
the interface?
                cu andreas