[csw-maintainers] An idea for a shared libraries policy

[Roger Håkansson]

On 2010-09-28 18:54, Philip Brown wrote:

> I'm guessing that debian already has a naming policy for this sort of
> thing, since I vaguely recall seeing some naming that I considered
> really ugly at the time.
> So interested parties should probably do a little research on other
> distros, to avoid needlessly introducing "yet another naming scheme"
> if there is an existing accepted one already out there.

For the libraries I've maintain it looks like neither OpenSuSE nor 
Fedora/RedHat have any standard.

Some libraries are packaged as 
libLIBVERSION-UPSTREAMFULLVERSION-DISTROVERSION (like 
libMagickCore1-6.4.5.4-15.1.x86_64.rpm whih includes 
libMagickCore.so.1.0.0 from ImageMagick 6.4.5-4).

Others have libUPSTREAMMAJORVERSION-UPSTREAMFULLVERSION-DISTROVERSION 
(like libsoup22-2.2.100-50.23.x86_64.rpm which includes 
libsoup-2.2.so.8.5.0 from libsoup-2.2.100)