Greetings, Why not just use the whole library version in the soname and package name? For example, libsuitesparse has lib*.so.3.1.0 which is the soname, and forget about .so.3 . Then the soname and package name match, so lintian is happy, and if upstream changes the interface between 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 (let alone 3.2.0), the soname and package names change, right?
This is what I do with petsc, spooles, hypre, parmetis, my netgen shlib patch, and will have to do for opencascade... And it's lintian-clean. Cheers, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
