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From: mars14850@gmail.com

Package 'libnuma1' is built from numactl, and there seems no 'libnuma'
exists. Why does it named as 'libnuma1' rather than 'libnuma'?

J.J. Martzki,
Best wishes.

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From: rra@debian.org

"J.J. Martzki" <mars14850@gmail.com> writes:

Package 'libnuma1' is built from numactl, and there seems no 'libnuma' exists. Why does it named as 'libnuma1' rather than 'libnuma'?

Shared library packages should be named after the library SONAME, which generally includes a version (as it does here). See:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#run-time-shared-libraries

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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