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Re: Shared library naming and dashes



On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:44:58AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > There's been some discussion at the #gnome-debian channel about
> > package naming for some shared libraries. Specifically, people
> > were discussing if libgnome-keyring, which has the following
> > library should be named: /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.0.0.
> > The package was named libgnome-keyring-0, afaik.
> 
> AFAICT, I've summed up in 'Naming library packages' in libpkg-guide,
> and created a little shell script 'd-shlibs' which contains 
> a shell snippet to generate a package name from shared library name.
> 
> The logic used in the shell script is really simple; 
> remove the .so., and add a '-' if it's ambiguous.

...and downcase any capital letters.

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G. Branden Robinson                |    I must confess to being surprised
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    by the magnitude of incompatibility
branden@debian.org                 |    with such a minor version bump.
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