What todo when upstream only makes .so and no .so.x

[Linus Walleij]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Hans de Goede wrote:

> The subject says it all.

What Debian does is they take over versioning themselves, and that is also 
what I think we ought to do.

Rename foo.so into foo.so.0, then watch the package and bump to foo.so.1 
etc in accordance with the common library versioning scheme. Put a link 
from foo.so to foo.so.0 and put that link into the devel package.

Linus