At 19:53 -0700 1999-08-18, Joseph Carter wrote:
Because even some free programs use shlib plugins without sonames and it'd be better to maintain compatibility than to break it simply because we would prefer to have sonames?
shared objects without sonames are not shared libraries, and thus do not belong in the shlibs file. If upstream intends them to be used as shared libraries instead of dlopen()ed shared objects, they should have sonames.
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>