Re: Help with sonames for Staden's io_lib package.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:25:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > I almost finished to package Staden's io_lib. In contrary to Upstream's
> > defaults, the Debian package builds a dynamic library. Could somebody help me
> > to figure out the Right Thing to do with the sonames?

Le Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:41:27AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> Well, I successfully used d-shlibs which is intended to implement the
> rules which are layed out in he library packaging guide.  For instance
> you might look into libgenome.  It somehow works like this:
> 
>   1. make install INSTALLDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp
>   2. use d-shlibmove to move files from debian/tmp to the package
>      directories.  The code should look somehow like this:
> 
> pkg=libstaden-read
> name=libstaden-read
> version=1.11
> # series=1.11.6 

Le Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:23:12AM +0100, James Bonfield a écrit :
> 
> Perhaps if I was more rigorous then only the major version number need
> be in the soname field, but I can't guarantee that would mean
> precisely the same API from 1.1 all the way to 1.11. Typically I add
> new functions and try not to change old ones.
> 
> It's also worth noting that the major version number isn't likely to
> change soon (despite plans to do it for the last 10 years!) and so
> it's far more likely that a user would say "I need version 1.10 and
> above" than "I need version 1.x". I'm not fully up to speed on how
> versioning and soname should work though so how does soname cover
> "version x and above" requirements? Is it simply smarts in the linker
> that knows 1.12 should be 1.11 + more?

Dear James and Andreas,

I was still unsure on the versionning scheme, so I decided to upload a package
called libstaden-read0 because with the libtoolisation patch I applied, the
soname version is 0.0.0. This leaves room for uploading new packages with name
libstaden-read1 or libstaden-read-1.11, once I can figure out how to instruct
the build system to do the right thing. Can sonames have a decimal part, like
libstaden-read.so.1.11?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan