On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 04:06:18PM +0100, Fabian Harfert wrote: > the name libwnck-1 is right. The library files have this name and the > pkg-config file refers to that. This is because it uses Gtk+ 2.x and > has a different API than libwnck-3. I don't know why they chose this > versioning, but it's their decision.
Well, these are the sonames, which need not be related to the program version. A package with a given version may ship arbitrary libraries with arbitrary sonames. For instance, gmp-6.1 and gmp-6.0 ship libgmp.so.10 and libgmpxx.so.4. Nevertheless, we still call all variables gmp and gmp-6.0, respectively. So here we should also use libwnck-2. Notice that the variable name is something that humans edit, whereas we need not care about sonames that are handled by some magic. Andreas
