Alexis Papadopoulos wrote: > I'm actually making some .deb packages out of a single source archive. > One of them should contain a shared library. The upstream author's > package's version is 5.13 and the soname of his library has been set to > 513. After having contacted him, he told me that was done because > apparently each time the new version of the library became uncompatible > with the previous ones, the major version should be incremented, > something that was disturbing because the library is often subject to > modifications leading to incompatibilities.
Is this shared library actually used by other programs? Or only within the internal use of this particular project? If the latter then I would avoid packaging it as a shared library at all. If the shared library is not used by other programs then I would covert the build to link the project library code as an archive library for Debian. That should avoid most of the problems. Bob
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