Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > * peter green <plugw...@p10link.net>, 2015-09-19, 06:29: >> Another big one is the descision was taken NOT to change the sonames >> when making sub-transitions. I presume this was done to avoid >> deviating from upstream sonmaes > > I don't think this is the reason. We don't change SONAMEs because it's > a huge pain for maintainers.
For upstream, it is probably wrong to change the soname: the ABI changed due to libstdc++ changing, however upstream cannot know which C++ implementation is used when building their packages. > (Has anyone figured a straight-forward > way to append arbitrary suffix to SONAME for packages that use > libtool?) Though not a suffix: maybe libtool's -release option? It can be used together with -version. Ansgar
