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inconsistency in libraries names



On 24 Jun 1997, Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De> wrote:

> Remarks:
> 
>  [1] the name of a library package often includes the major version
>      number of the library. If so, the 'g' should come before this
>      number, e.g. libgdbmg1 as package name for the libc6 based
>      runtime package for libgdbm.

But we have a lot of libraries called the other way round. (One of
the most notorious ones is xlib6g). Is that a bug, or just doesn't
matter?

-- 
Enrique Zanardi					ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna


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