Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:12:43PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The current description of the shlibs format in section 8.6.3 assumes >> all shared libraries have SONAMEs of the form libfoo.so.<version>. >> However, Debian's tools also support a versioned SONAME of the form >> libfoo-<version>.so. > > I am not sure I understand that statement. Which Debian tools are they ? dpkg-shlibdeps most notably (and with the most Policy relevance, since Policy requires the use of dpkg-shlibdeps). Also dh_shlibdeps, in determining what to pass to dpkg-shlibdeps. > 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] -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
