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Re: Having trouble creating a shared library package



On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 08:27:24AM -0800, John Horigan wrote:
> I maintain a static library package, libagg-dev. There is an outstanding
> request for a shared library of libagg. 
Is building the shared lib supported by the upstream? 

> libagg2-dev has the .so file with the name libagg.so and libagg2 has the
> .so file with the name libagg.so.2.0.4 and the symlink libagg.so.2.
You shouldn't put the soname version into the -dev package name.
And libagg.so is a symlink to libagg.so.2, not its copy.

> I also put in lintian overrides because libagg2-dev installs a .so file
> with the SONAME libagg2 but the package is called libagg2-dev:
You should not override this, of course.

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