[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Kimmo Jukarainen]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:59:47PM +0100, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> 
> Twas brillig at 13:51:52 17.02.2010 UTC+02 when kimju-maemo-dev at inside.org did gyre and gimble:
> 
>  KJ> But the first one. What package provides libnautilus-extension.so.1? Or 
>  KJ> libevview.so.1? And even if I find out what package has these specific 
>  KJ> files, is there any version dependencies? 
> 
> Do you have the slightest idea what SONAMEs are and what they are for?

Yes I do. But they still don't help on picking the correct package. 
And the sonames are not usually/always incremented for a minor bug 
fixes etc. At least not the part visible in the file name.

For example: Program X uses libfoo, and libfoo had bug that this 
program triggers. It was fixed in libfoo 1.0.11, but the name of 
the library is still libfoo.so.1, even if the library itself has 
more specific version number. So if the program X package still 
announces requirement for libfoo.so.1, it doesn't say that this 
really needs >= 1.0.11 of the libfoo,

-kimju