On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:16:31PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > While I agree with you, and have started the petitioning process, I'd > still really appreciate suggestions on what SONAME to use for the > package between now and such time as upstream adopts a SONAME.
Don't invent one at all. By doing so, you would take up part of the namespace that would be available to upstream, and saddle them with your decision. If upstream hasn't committed to a soname yet, then I recommend packaging it as a static library only. Make a shared version when the they commit to maintaining binary compatibility. -- Richard Braakman Will write free software for money. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html