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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100703174646.ga21...@roeckx.be
