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Bug#661928: debian-policy: recipe for determining shlib package name



* Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>, 2012-03-02, 19:41:
Lintian suggests the following command to determine correct name for a shared library package:

objdump -p /path/to/libfoo-bar.so.1.2.3 | sed -n -e's/^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | sed -e's/\([0-9]\)\.so\./\1-/; s/\.so\.//'

Could this code be included in Policy §8.1, perhaps as a footnote? Thanks.

That seems to be missing tr [[:upper:]] [[:lower:]].

Hmm, right. And it should replace underscores with dashes.

--
Jakub Wilk



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