Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> Current practice suggests hyphen instead of dot for including a version
> in a package name: mico-2.3.0, kernel-image-2.2.17, cpp-2.95, perl-5.005,
> netscape-smotif-475, libgnat-3.13p-1, libbz2-1.0, libid3-3.7-13, ... 
> just to name a few.

Hm, I should have read the full proposal I guess :(

Some of the mentioned package names in the proposal are quite bogus
though:

* libgtrans-mysql-3-23
  Looks like a library for mysql3.23, not version 3-23 or so. Proper package
  name should then be libgtrans-mysql3.23

* libgtrans-postgresql-6-5-3
  Same as above, should be libgtrans-postgresql6.5.3

* libid3-3.7-13
* libmath3d-0.3-0
  I don't see where those numbers come from or why they are useful.

The idea of seperating the ABI version (bit more general then soname)
from the packagename with a - is indeed useful.

Wichert.

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