On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Why exactly does it make transitions easier?
I assume the advantage is that when the soversion is bumped, the rdeps can be upgraded and backported across the transition without source modifications. > > [1] From section 8.4, Development files: “The development files > > associated to a shared library need to be placed in a package called > > librarynamesoversion-dev, or if you prefer only to support one > > development version at a time, libraryname-dev.” > > The latter applies. Strictly, the library soname is libserf-0.so.0, which parses as libraryname = libserf-0, soversion = 0, so that libraryname-dev = libserf-0-dev. On the other hand, I see packages using a variety of conventions here (libpixman-1.so.0 → libpixman-1-dev, libgnome-2.so.0 → libgnome2-dev, libIDL-2.so.0 → libidl-dev), so this is obviously up to the maintainer to some extent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
