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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=6115b4d35c8c927e42e4d51c82d023a5049c3c6c commit 6115b4d35c8c927e42e4d51c82d023a5049c3c6c Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri Oct 4 05:36:42 2019 +0200 man: Describe the SONAME formats supported in deb-shlibs --- debian/changelog | 1 + man/deb-shlibs.man | 14 ++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 3ebde1ef3..a2ade4b79 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ dpkg (1.20.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium Reported by Felix Lechner <[email protected]>. - man: Globally adjust left and disable hyphenation. - man: Split dselect(1) --color from --colour option items. + - man: Describe the SONAME formats supported in deb-shlibs(5). * Code internals: - Dpkg::Source::Package: Refactor original tarball handling. - perl: Use File::Copy instead of spawning mv/cp commands. diff --git a/man/deb-shlibs.man b/man/deb-shlibs.man index 26ba5f0b3..7c023e015 100644 --- a/man/deb-shlibs.man +++ b/man/deb-shlibs.man @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ deb\-shlibs \- Debian shared library information file .PP .B shlibs files map shared library names and versions -.RI ( sonames ) +.RI ( SONAMEs ) to dependencies suitable for a package control file. There is one entry per line. Blank lines are \fBnot\fP allowed. Lines beginning with an \fB#\fP character are considered commentary, and are ignored. @@ -44,13 +44,23 @@ but the \fIdependencies\fP field extends to the end of the line. The The \fIdependencies\fP field has the same syntax as the \fBDepends\fP field in a binary control file, see \fBdeb\-control\fP(5). . +.SH SONAME FORMATS +The SONAME formats supported are: + + \fIname\fP.so.\fIversion\fP + +and + + \fIname\fP-\fIversion\fP.so + +where \fIname\fP is usually prefixed by \fBlib\fP. .SH EXAMPLES .PP The .B shlibs file for a typical library package, named .IR libcrunch1 , -that provides one library whose soname is +that provides one library whose SONAME is .IR libcrunch.so.1 , might read .IP -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
