From fca4e1088aa8ed85ef631b084cd8e967288d7bc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:51:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Document the alternate SONAME format used by libtool -release

Document the SONAME format where the version number comes before
the .so and after a hyphen and provide another example.
---
 policy.sgml | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 9a72be5..f0e3f8d 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -5654,7 +5654,11 @@ objdump -p /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 | grep SONAME
 	    </example>
 	  </footnote>
 	  The version part is the part which comes after
-	  <tt>.so.</tt>, so in our case, it is <tt>1</tt>.
+	  <tt>.so.</tt>, so in our case, it is <tt>1</tt>.  The soname may
+	  instead be of the form
+	  <tt><var>name</var>-<var>major-version</var>.so</tt>, such
+	  as <tt>libdb-4.8.so</tt>, in which case the name would
+	  be <tt>libdb</tt> and the version would be <tt>4.8</tt>.
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
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