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Bug#509932: shlibs format only addresses one versioning structure



On Thu, 01 Jul 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Jul  1, 2010 at 12:19:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> > index 9a72be5..2a634b8 100644
> > --- a/policy.sgml
> > +++ b/policy.sgml
> > @@ -5654,7 +5654,11 @@ objdump -p /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 | grep SONAME
> >  	    </example>
> >  	  </footnote>
> >  	  The version part is the part which comes after
> > -	  <tt>.so.</tt>, so in our case, it is <tt>1</tt>.
> > +	  <tt>.so.</tt>, so in our case, it is <tt>1</tt>.  The soname may
> > +	  instead be of the form
> > +	  <tt><var>name</var>-<var>major-version</var>.so</tt>, such
> > +	  as <tt>libdb-4.8.so</tt>, in which case the version would
> > +	  be <tt>4.8</tt>.
> >  	</p>
> >  
> >  	<p>
> > 
> Maybe say "the name would be libdb and the version 4.8".

Ack.

> Either way, seconded.

Seconded too (and the changes wrt debian/shlibs.local too but there are
already 2 seconds).

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-- 
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