Re: Confused about libnuma1 naming

Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"J.J. Martzki" <[email protected]> writes:

> Package 'libnuma1' is built from numactl, and there seems no 'libnuma'
> exists. Why does it named as 'libnuma1' rather than 'libnuma'?

Shared library packages should be named after the library SONAME, which
generally includes a version (as it does here).  See:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#run-time-shared-libraries
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