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Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?



On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:48:42AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> writes:
> 
> > Okay, just to be sure: you suggest making a separate library package,
> > but putting the libs in /usr/lib/<libpackage> and RPATH-linking the
> > binaries, right?  That is, treating the library as private, although it
> > is a separate package.  Phew.
> 
> Right.
[...]
> > dpkg-shlibdeps would still choke upon the unversioned soname, but I
> > could just hard-code the library dependency and be done with it.  There
> > would be no shlibs file.  Again no problem, right?
> 
> That's my take, yes.

Okay, cool, I'll go ahead then.  I like this solution.  I think it's a
pretty good translation of the status of these libraries into packaging. 

Thanks!
Nikolaus

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