[Ecls-list] Bug#486376: Bug#486376: ecl: /usr/lib/libecl.so doesn't provide a SONAME

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
> Hi Juanjo!
>
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:41:25 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
>>>> That is not something ECL has to provide. It is more a configuration
>>>> option that operating systems may provide.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I'm not a skilled programmed, but I don't understand why this is
>>> not ECL task: ECL provides the libecl.so library, so who else should
>>> provide its SONAME?
>>
>> The SONAME is a basically a linker option and can be passed to ECL as
>> a configuration flag during the build process. It is not our task as
>> developers of ECL to impose a certain numbering scheme or link flags
>> on the main source distribution, but rather the package maintainer to
>> set it based on their own criteria or distribution standards.
>
> Well, I really think SONAME's decision belongs to developers, not to
> package maintainers.  Let's say that Debian uses a SONAME of 0.1 while
> Ubuntu 0.2 [1]: then every effort done with the LSB [2] is lost.

This indeed would be unfortunate.  Just as ECL developers control ECL
release versioning, I believe most people would naturally assume that
ECL developers control ECL SONAMEs.  At least, that is the way it works
for most projects.

-- Gaby