I might not be 100% accurate and everyone is free to correct me... but here's the main idea:
The purpose is to avoid API and ABI breakage between your program and the library if there is a major . Your package should actually only have build-depends to libldap2-dev in the debian/control file, and the packaging toolchain will automatically add a dependency to the specific binary package (libldap2.4-X) during the build process. For example: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), libgstreamer0.10-dev, libxml2-dev, libglib2.0-dev You might be also interested in http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_91.html (especially the "age") -- Version number in package name makes life hard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662398 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
