Bug#83669: Shared libraries

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Currently, wrt shared libraries, we mandate (or do) this:

>  foo2 (2.1)     /usr/lib/libfoo.so.2 -> libfoo.so.2.1
>                 /usr/lib/libfoo.so.2.1                  (actual library)

>  foo-dev (2.1)  /usr/include/foo.h
>                 /usr/lib/libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.2

How about
		/usr/lib/libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.2.1
and allow shlibs with different minor version numbers to be installed
together by encoding it into the package name.  Of course, we'll have
to manage /usr/lib/libfoo.so.2 dynamically as well.

This would require changing how dpkg-shlibdeps works though.
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