Bug#509932: shlibs format only addresses one versioning structure

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:21:55AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> > Are there shared libraries (not plugin) in Debian with SONAME of the
> > form libfoo-<version>.so ?
> 
> Yes, quite a few.  All of the libdb<version> packages, for instance.
> 
> windlord:~> dpkg -L libdb4.6 | grep /usr/lib/
> /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.so
> windlord:~> readelf -d /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.so | grep SONAME
>  0x0000000e (SONAME)                     Library soname: [libdb-4.6.so]

Is there any reason they're not using libdb.so.4.6 as soname?

It's of course to late to change it for current versions of the
library, but I do have to wonder.


Kurt