Lintian tag: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
Type: warning
Description (from lintian-explain-tags
)
The package name of a library package should usually reflect the soname of
the included library. The package name can determined from the library
file name with the following code snippet:
$ objdump -p /path/to/libfoo-bar.so.1.2.3 | sed -n -e's/^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | \
sed -r -e's/([0-9])\.so\./\1-/; s/\.so(\.|$)//; y/_/-/; s/(.*)/\L&/'
Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: libraries/shared/soname
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