Re: bad soname for libpcap.so.1.6.2 ?

[ikuzar RABE <ikuzar9295 () gmail com>]

Ok, I work on Debian.
But why each distribution does not follow libpcap writer (tcpdump dev team)
from the begining ? Is there something which leads each distro to write
their own soname ? Why isn't there an unique soname for all distro



2016-05-06 19:18 GMT+02:00 hans <hans () stare cz>:

> On May 06 17:37:51, rfrancoise () debian org wrote:
> > > is normal that soname of libpcap.so.1.6.2 is libpcap.so.0.8 ?
> > This is specific to Debian and its derivatives, for more details see:
> >   https://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/libpcap-faq.html
>
> And it's /usr/lib/libpcap.so.8.1 on current OpenBSD
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/specialtopics.html#SharedLibs
>
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