Why new package name libsasl2-2

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:42:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:39:35PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> > Andreas Metzler schrieb:
> > > thanks to you all for investing time and energy to kick sasl in shape.
> > 
> > I second that.
> > 
> > > #1 The library package name has changed from libsasl2-2 to libsasl2. I
> > > cannot see a reason for that, the soname is the same one as
> > > previously. 
> > 
> > I'm also wondering the same thing: Why is there a need to rename the
> > package? I didn't find any so far. The new library seems to work as a
> > drop-in-replacement for the old one AFAICT (I didn't test it on a
> > production system yet), but the packaging makes updates a lot more
> > difficult than they would need to be, especially so close before the
> > freeze for a new stable release.
> > 
> OK.  I started renaming to correspond to the old names and then
> reverted.  I will go ahead and rename and then commit so that we are
> dropping in for old packages.
> 
It appears that lintian warns that we get the following warning in
lintian after changing every instance of libsasl2-2* to libsasl2*

N: Processing binary package libsasl2 (version 2.1.22-1) ...
W: libsasl2: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libsasl2-2
N:
N:   The package name of a library package should usually reflect the
N:   soname of the included library. The package name can determined from
N:   the library file name with the following code snippet:
N:   
N:    $ objdump -p /path/to/libfoo-bar.so.1.2.3 | sed -n -e's/^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | sed -e's/\([0-9]\)\.so\./\1-/; s/\.so\.//'
N:   
N:   Refer to Library Packaging guide 5 for details.

Recommendations?  I am going to leave it as is for now.  I agree with
Andreas and Sven that we should keep the actual package names the same
as much as possible.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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