Dmitry, other distributions ship development packages, so it would make sense for Debian to do that too. There are two target groups of users: plugin writers and those with their own command line tools. The latter group might be empty.
Note, that we have never promised A[BP]I stability and have certainly broken it almost every release. Yet I don't recall ever having gotten a complaint over that. It appears that users with their own plugins are happy to recompile when they upgrade. I didn't quite catch what the soname problem was. Can you elaborate? M. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Dmitry Smirnov <only...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > Hi Morten, Andreas, > > At the moment in Debian we ship "libspreadsheet" library together with > gnumeric as private binary. We have new bug report > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723903 > > suggesting to expose "libspreadsheet" to operating system and to > provide it (properly) as library packages. > > What do you think? > > If that's all right with you then perhaps it would be nice to fix > soname according to common practice as described in §3.1.1. "Shared Library > Names": > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html > > Just for the reference I hope libtool manual may be handy as well: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/ > > Thank you. > > -- > All the best, > Dmitry Smirnov > GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
