Bug#498416: Lua library-names

2010-06-28 Thread Enrico Tassi
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:33:32AM +0200, M G Berberich wrote: To be consistent with standards the libraries name should be p.e. “liblua.so.5.1.0” instead of “liblua5.1.so.0.0.0”. The The semantics of the three number in a .so file is not what you have in mind. They express ABI/API

Bug#498416: Lua library-names

2010-06-27 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, The library-names of lua are totaly wrong. To be consistent with standards the libraries name should be p.e. “liblua.so.5.1.0” instead of “liblua5.1.so.0.0.0”. The pkg-config-name should be “lua”. There should be packages liblua50-dev, liblua51-dev, etc. which provide liblua-dev. But

Bug#498416: Lua library-names

2010-06-27 Thread John Belmonte
The naming is intentional. Please review the README.Debian.gz doc file on any of the packages, which explains the rationale. On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:33 AM, M G Berberich berbe...@fmi.uni-passau.de wrote: Hello, The library-names of lua are totaly wrong. To be consistent with standards the