Bug#661928: debian-policy: recipe for determining shlib package name
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
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.
[0] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-name-doesnt-match-sonames.html
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Jakub Wilk
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