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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2019-10-04 05:36:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2019-11-26 02:42:44 +0100 |
| commit | 6115b4d35c8c927e42e4d51c82d023a5049c3c6c (patch) | |
| tree | 7376670eaca8ae5d961502fa718d11231014194d | |
| parent | ebbb81b5329f567f89ca576279bdeabafd291253 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-6115b4d35c8c927e42e4d51c82d023a5049c3c6c.tar.gz | |
man: Describe the SONAME formats supported in deb-shlibs
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/deb-shlibs.man | 14 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 3ebde1ef3..a2ade4b79 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ dpkg (1.20.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium Reported by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>. - man: Globally adjust left and disable hyphenation. - man: Split dselect(1) --color from --colour option items. + - man: Describe the SONAME formats supported in deb-shlibs(5). * Code internals: - Dpkg::Source::Package: Refactor original tarball handling. - perl: Use File::Copy instead of spawning mv/cp commands. diff --git a/man/deb-shlibs.man b/man/deb-shlibs.man index 26ba5f0b3..7c023e015 100644 --- a/man/deb-shlibs.man +++ b/man/deb-shlibs.man @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ deb\-shlibs \- Debian shared library information file .PP .B shlibs files map shared library names and versions -.RI ( sonames ) +.RI ( SONAMEs ) to dependencies suitable for a package control file. There is one entry per line. Blank lines are \fBnot\fP allowed. Lines beginning with an \fB#\fP character are considered commentary, and are ignored. @@ -44,13 +44,23 @@ but the \fIdependencies\fP field extends to the end of the line. The The \fIdependencies\fP field has the same syntax as the \fBDepends\fP field in a binary control file, see \fBdeb\-control\fP(5). . +.SH SONAME FORMATS +The SONAME formats supported are: + + \fIname\fP.so.\fIversion\fP + +and + + \fIname\fP-\fIversion\fP.so + +where \fIname\fP is usually prefixed by \fBlib\fP. .SH EXAMPLES .PP The .B shlibs file for a typical library package, named .IR libcrunch1 , -that provides one library whose soname is +that provides one library whose SONAME is .IR libcrunch.so.1 , might read .IP |