Russ Allbery wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.1
Severity: minor
I read through the shared library sections of Policy a few times last night
and can't find anywhere where Policy unambiguously recommends always
including a version in SONAME for public libraries. If you don't have a
version, you can't represent the library in the shlibs format, so there's
an implicit recommendation, but I think it would be better to make it
explicit.
I think the first sentence of 8.1 with the footnote 47 give an
answer, but: a footnote (IMO) is not normative, and a "a good idea"
is too weak.
[8.1]
The run-time shared library needs to be placed in a package whose name changes whenever the shared
object version changes.[47]
[47]
Since it is common place to install several versions of a package that just provides shared
libraries, it is a good idea that the library package should not contain any extraneous
non-versioned files, unless they happen to be in versioned directories.
ciao
cate
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