Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:06:26PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> > > Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6
> > > for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusing if the library name
> > > ends in a number so that the soversion is separated with a hyphen from
> > > the library name.
>
> Why not just use a dot instead of a hyphen? Makes much more sense to me.
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.
Regards,
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@id-agora.com
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