RE: Question about shared libraries
On 21-Mar-2001 Shane Wegner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have packaged shared libraries in the past but am looking
> for some help with this particular one. I am packaging
> version 1.0.0 of dotconf and rather than naming it
> libdotconf.so.1 as was done for 0.x (libdotconf.so.0) it's
> named libdotconf-1.0.so.0. Now, I was under the impression
> that one named a library libfoo.so.x and incremented x
> whenever there was an API change making it binary
> incompatable with the previous version. How would I
> package something where the major version is actually
> before the .so extention? How should the package name
> change as the API changes? Can I just modify the source to
> call it libdotconf.so.1 and call my package libdotconf1 or
> is that not ideal?
>
What you are running into is recent libtools changing the filename when certain
options are used. Under potato, dpkg does not understand these libraries,
neither does lintian.
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