Bug#100472: amendment accepted

retitle 100472 [ACCEPTED 2001-08-17] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion forwarded 100472 debian-policy@lists.debian.org thanks Technically this would have been accepted some days ago, but I only now got around to changing the bug status. There has not been much discussion and no outr

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

retitle 100472 [AMENDMENT 2001-07-28] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion severity 100472 normal thanks On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:55:38AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > Seconded. It's a "may" and not a "must", gives more meaningful > package names, and documents current practice. >

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:51:09PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Andreas Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.5.5.0 > > Severity: wishlist > > > $ egrep '^Package: lib.*-[[:digit:]]*$' unstable-Packages > >

Bug#100472: [PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.5.0 Severity: wishlist Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusing if the library name ends in a number so that the soversion is separated with a hyphen from the library name. $ egrep