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Re: Confused about libnuma1 naming

From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to J.J. Martzki on Fri May 17 06:50:01 2024

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"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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