> > Don't put the version into the filename. This is not a common > > practice for Linux / BSD / whatever systems. Usually you have > > a "kmail" file, not a kmail3.5, kmail4.0 and kmail4.2 file. > > I think in this context libyyy.so.x.y.z is better analogy. > firmware is not an executable What is the reasoning behind this > common practice? There's no version of the library in the file-name, but the version of the API. So if the API changes, and might break users of the API, you increase the filename. But you won't have a libc-2.3.6.so file. Instead you have a package "libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch9_i386.deb" which contains the file libc.so.6. -- http://www.holgerschurig.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
