[Debian GNUstep maintainers] (no subject)

[Eric Heintzmann]

On 2004-11-16 23:46:22 +0100 Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org> wrote:

> So, I thought the whole point with libsomethingN packages was that N 
> was
> the soname version number of the library.

Yes, you are right.

> 
> I don't think the soname version number of gnustep-gui is 0.9.

gnustep-base SONAME is libgnustep-base.1.10
gnustep-gui SONAME is libgnustep-gui.0.9

try these commands:
cd /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/
objdump -p libgnustep-base.so | grep SONAME
objdump -p libgnustep-gui.so | grep SONAME

The sonames have been recently changed by upstream (Adam Fedor) 
because of new binary imcompatibilities.
At the same time they decided to change the versionning sheme to avoid

	Eric