On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:12:43PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.8.0.1 > Severity: minor > > The current description of the shlibs format in section 8.6.3 assumes > all shared libraries have SONAMEs of the form libfoo.so.<version>. > However, Debian's tools also support a versioned SONAME of the form > libfoo-<version>.so.
I am not sure I understand that statement. Which Debian tools are they ? As far as I understand, Debian supports SONAME of any form or shapes, though we generally use the following symlink scheme: libfoo.so.1 -> libfoo.so.1.3.0 libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.1.3.0 where libfoo.so.1 is the SONAME, and libfoo.so is the link in the -dev package, the name "libfoo.so" being imposed by the linker search strategy when we do 'gcc -lfoo'. Are there shared libraries (not plugin) in Debian with SONAME of the form libfoo-<version>.so ? This would be slightly dangerous because this allows the faulty command gcc -lfoo-<version> to complete even if the include files on the system are for an incompatible version of libfoo. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
