On Friday 16 September 2005 1:17 am, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > + no need to call the -dbg pacakge libibverbs1, the dbg should match the
> > exact version including SONAME of the libibverbs1 and thus can remain
> > libibverbs-dbg
>
> OK, I changed the name (and also libmthca1-dbg -> libmthca-dbg)
>
> > + SONAME libibverbs.so.1
> > is a very challenging goal. Are you sure that all 1.x.y releases will
> > ship the same API for each and every upcoming version of x and y? Not
> > that this is impossible to reach, just mentioning the implications.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here. The SONAME doesn't have anything to
> do with the naming of releases, does it?
The release number of a source package is not related to the SONAME:
"Never try to set the interface numbers so that they correspond to the release
number of your package. This is an abuse that only fosters misunderstanding
of the purpose of library versions. Instead, use the -release flag (see
Release numbers), but be warned that every release of your package will not
be binary compatible with any other release."
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Updating-version-info
However, the *name* of any library package should ALWAYS reflect the SONAME.
Check the libtool manual and the Debian Library Packaging Guide:
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#sonames
The package name should match the shared library SONAME. It can be deduced
with sed s/\.so\./-/ and removing “-” later when removing it will not result
in consecutive numbers. or by using the following code snippet from Steve
Langasek.
$ 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\.//'
SONAME package name
libsome-1.2.3.so.4 libsome-1.2.3-4
libsome-1.2.3.so libsome-1.2.3
libsome.so.4 libsome4
libsome.so libsome
> I am just planning on
> bumping the SONAME to .2 if there is an incompatible change.
Then that would change the package to libibverbs2.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Versioning
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Updating-version-info
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