Hi Philipp, On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 07:59:10AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > I got into trouble with library package naming. I package something > called net6 which passes -release 1 and -version-info 0:0:0 to > libtool. The library version number is 1.0, and the library on disk > is called libnet6-1.so.0.0.0 (according to the former parameters). > How should the Debian binary package be called? > When I read the Debian Library Packagaing Guide I get the impression > that libnet6-1-0 would be correct, but some in #debian-devel said > that the library is improperly named. Upstream's intention for “- > release 1” was that major versions are binary incompatible anyway and > so one could reset the SONAME to 0:0:0. If this versioning should be > changed upstream please tell me so, and please with a clue for me > what's wrong with it. Otherwise please give me a package name with > which the package could be added to Debian. Setting aside any questions of how upstream *should* version their libraries, here is a shell snippet that spits out the "best practices" package name for any given 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\.//' Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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