Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> 
> > Too, there are actually two forms of library soname file naming used:
> >   libfoo.so.1.2.3
> > and
> >   libfoo-1.2.3.so
> 
> Only the first one is mentioned in the various packaging guides,

hmmm ? excluding this?

http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#shldevpackagecontents


> so I suppose that the format libfoo-1.2.3.so only exists for historical
> reasons, right? IMHO new packages have to use the form libfoo.so.1.2.3 ?

That's not quite the case.


regards,
	junichi
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