LINTIAN

# `package-name-doesnt-match-sonames`

The package name of a library package should usually reflect the soname of the included library. The package name can determined from the library file name with the following code snippet:

    $ objdump -p /path/to/libfoo-bar.so.1.2.3 | sed -n -e's/^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | \
        sed -r -e's/([0-9]).so./\1-/; s/.so(.|$)//; y/_/-/; s/(.*)/\L&/'

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag