tags 493951 +help thanks On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 07:32, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: libpkg-guide > Version: 0.0.20070413 > Severity: serious > > The libpkg-guide that has been packaged and is now in the archive gives > recommendations regarding -dev package naming which are not at all > representative of a consensus in Debian. We already have problems with > library maintainers inserting sonames into their -dev package names based on > the unclear/misguided advice of this document; shipping it in a stable > release would be seen by many as an endorsement by the Debian project, and > no such endorsement exists. There *particularly* isn't such an endorsement > from the Debian release team, for whom gratuitous -dev package name changes > make library transitions more difficult by orders of magnitude. > > This package should not be included in a stable release until the > recommendations have been revised to reflect best practices.
I waited long, then I finally decided to ask for help to fix this bug. Sadly, I don't have the time to properly read all the documentation and forge a patch to the current package (and Junichi is in the same situation). So I'm here to ask for your help in fixing it. Thanks in advance, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
