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[Iain Lane <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Review: Needs Fixing
Looks mostly good. Comments:

  - We're trying to get rid of .la files, please mention this as often lines in rules are required to do that. http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval (in fact, I wonder if the whole shared libraries section could just say "don't")
  - You could link to this rather good guide http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html
  - How can I check myself if upstream has got its SONAME right?
  - I'd like the guide to be more explicit about SONAME being in the runtime package name, and the fact that this means that you often have to rename the package, and that this causes a transition so should be avoided if possible.
  - The third paragraph could probably be improved: "While sometimes libraries are distributed along with programs (this is called /bundling/), it is preferred for them to be distributed separately. This is because of x, y, z". Then a separate package describing the libfoo-dev, libfoo-SONAME conventions.
  - s/programme/program/

Good work!
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