On 30/01/2008, David Paleino wrote: > I'm packaging a software for the Debian-Med group (CCed), and found > that, even if the library is at version 2.2.1, the compilation makes a > libfoo.so.2.0.2 [1].
> Is there any solution to this? If not, is it that important that the > filename has the same version number as the package? Hi, please check libpkg-guide [2] and read about what SONAME, ABI, and API are. The version number of the package has *nothing* to do with that. Random example: graphviz has libgraphviz4 (.so.4.0.0), version is 2.16. 2. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/ Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois
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