On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
In addition, if you follow the link you will see that the library is
called "jsoncpp". What is the right name I should choose for my package?
I intend that libjsoncpp is appropriate, because I suppose that all the
library packages on Debian are named lib*. Is this true?
Not all zlib1g is a counter example (although that's a very old library
following a naming scheme not used anymore). Libraries have a very
strict naming schema, typically the name is lib<libraryname><soversion.
Please use the following hacky script to determine the correct name of
your library:
objdump -p /path/to/libfoo-bar.so.1.2.3 | \
sed -n -e's/^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | \
sed -e's/\([0-9]\)\.so\./\1-/; s/\.so\.//'
To clarify: the custom is to use the upstream name for the source package,
and to name the binary package after the library soname. You don't want to
change the source package name every time the upstream soname changes.