Regarding library names in Ubuntu

[Alexander Sack]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:04:30PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> "Ruchi Lohani" <rlohani at adobe.com> writes:
> 
> > Does this mean that I cant use the same binary on other Linux which were built
> > on ubuntu?
> 
> yes.
> 
> > Why is Ubuntu using non-standard names for libraries?
> 
> In general ubuntu is not using non-standard SONAMES but sticks to
> upstream's.  For this particular library, I assume that it has been
> compiled with special flags making it incompatible with other distros.
> 
> you could check with the maintainer (check the changelog to find out who
> touched the package last) for more information.
> 

This was introduced through debian and synched to ubuntu at some
point. Since then I didnt reconsider it, as my focus was mostly on
mozilla and gtkmozembed applications which when using the standalone
glue dont reference these libs at all.

However, this also came up during the mozilla summit and unless nss
adapts "our" approach, ubuntu will do debian-independent packaging for
nss and nspr in the future as well.

 - Alexander