Naming convention for versioned libraries

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2017-06-11 13:13, Ken Brown wrote:
> I'm about to ITP geomview, which will include a library package 
> containing DLLs of the form cyg*-1-9-5.dll.  Should the package be 
> called libgeomview1_9_5 or libgeomview_1_9_5?  I see both conventions in 
> the distro.

libgeomview1.9.5

But, is this really a standalone library that can be used without 
geomview, or is it just a support library intended for geomview and any 
of its plugins?  If the latter, then there should just be geomview and 
geomview-devel packages.

-- 
Yaakov