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Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?



Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> writes:

>> So, one cannot produce valid shlibs files for these libraries.  But
>> these are required by policy.  That is, as Steve Langasek has
>> pointed out in [2], the policy de-facto requires libraries to have
>> versioned sonames.

> The Debian policy only applies to packages in Debian. The software
> you're discussing won't be in Debian (because it's non-free), and is
> not subject to Debian policy.

Debian Policy does apply to packages in non-free, as it says in the Policy
document.  It's a perfectly reasonable question.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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