On 21-Mar-2001 Shane Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > I have packaged shared libraries in the past but am looking > for some help with this particular one. I am packaging > version 1.0.0 of dotconf and rather than naming it > libdotconf.so.1 as was done for 0.x (libdotconf.so.0) it's > named libdotconf-1.0.so.0. Now, I was under the impression > that one named a library libfoo.so.x and incremented x > whenever there was an API change making it binary > incompatable with the previous version. How would I > package something where the major version is actually > before the .so extention? How should the package name > change as the API changes? Can I just modify the source to > call it libdotconf.so.1 and call my package libdotconf1 or > is that not ideal? >
What you are running into is recent libtools changing the filename when certain options are used. Under potato, dpkg does not understand these libraries, neither does lintian.
