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Re: The digit in the library name



Hi,

Am 26.11.19 um 09:14 schrieb Sepi Gair:
> I see the trailing digit in some libraries' names, like libdca0 and
> libc6. I
> wasn't able to find the purpose of them in the Debian Policy and the Debian
> Developer Reference. Please point to the place in documentation where I can
> learn about these digits and decide if I should to use it or not.

The Debian Policy section 8.1[1] explains it:

> Normally, the run-time shared library and its SONAME symlink should be
> placed in a package named librarynamesoversion, where soversion is the
> version number in the SONAME of the shared library. Alternatively, if
> it would be confusing to directly append soversion to libraryname (if,
> for example, libraryname itself ends in a number), you should use
> libraryname-soversion instead.

Regards
Sven

[1]:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#run-time-shared-libraries

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