Re: SONAME best practice

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:16:08AM +0000, Andy Hawkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In article <[🔎] 4FB20730.1090005@pocock.com.au>,
>            Daniel Pocock<daniel@pocock.com.au> wrote:
> > There has been some discussion on this list about flactag and libmusicbrainz
> >
> > libmusicbrainz SONAMEs have a colourful history and this is reflected in
> > the way previous versions have been packaged
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > SONAME = libmusicbrainz3.so.6
> > v2.1.x (currently in Debian, src pkg = libmusicbrainz-2.1) SONAME =
> > libmusicbrainz.so.4
> > v4.0.x (on mentors) SONAME = libmusicbrainz4.so.0
> 
> I'm in the process of creating a libmb5, in order to get around the blocking
> issues in getting libmb4 into Debian.
> 
> The new version will be 5.0.0, the library is libmusicbrainz5.so.1.0.0
> 
> I think this is a much more sensible way of doing things.
> 
> The '5' in the first part is (I think) sensible, as it easily allows
> multiple versions of libmusicbrainz to be installed side-by-side (for
> example, libmb3 still works, so any applications that need it should be able
> to install it side by side with libmb5).

You already get that co-installability if you use e.g. libmusicbrainz.so.4
and libmusicbrainz.so.5, in which case the packages would be
libmusicbrainz4 and libmusicbrainz5. With libmusicbrainz4.so.0 and
libmusicbrainz5.so.1.0.0, they would be libmusicbrainz4-0 and
libmusicbrainz5-1.

Mike