Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:51:09PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de> wrote:
> > Package: debian-policy
> > Version: 3.5.5.0
> > Severity: wishlist
>
> > $ egrep '^Package: lib.*-[[:digit:]]*$' unstable-Packages
> > Package: lib3ds-1.0-0
> > Package: libasis-3.13p-1
> > Package: libgnat-3.13p-1
> > Package: libgtrans-mysql-3-23
> > Package: libgtrans-postgresql-6-5-3
> > Package: libid3-3.7-13
> > Package: libmath3d-0.3-0
> > Package: libnewt-utf8-0
> > Package: libole2-0
> > Package: libraw1394-5
>
> > The last three are what I am talking about specifically (libraw1394 is
> > mine, btw), generally this also applies to the version-in-name problems
> > seen above (don't ask me wtf libgtrans is up to).
>
> Although the kernels aren't shared libraries, they are in the same boat
> and hyphens have been used there since very early on, e.g., we have
> kernel-source-2.4.5.
Maybe, but that wasn't my point. After all, policy says nothing about
naming kernel packages (I'm not aware of it, at least). It does however
want shared library packages named librarynameX, with libraryname being
the soname and X being the soversion.
That would require me to name my lib package libraw13945. And we don't
really want that, do we?
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