On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:39:25AM +0200, marc wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> >On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:19 +0200, Marc Cromme wrote:
> >This is actually correct. The package in testing is called libnunit-cil
> >- NOT libnunit2.2.6-cil. The nunit=2.2.7 source package generates a
> >libnunit2.2.6-cil package because 2.2.7 and 2.2.6 are API compatible.
> >See the CLI policy for details. How is this causing you problems?
> However, I find it still very odd that the nunit source package version 
> 2.2.7-1 produces a binary package called  libnunit2.2.6-cil, because it 
> is binary compatible with the 2.2.6 version in testing, which by the way 
> is called libnunit-cil and not libnunit2.2.6-cil ??

> Wouldn't it better that the numbering fits such that nunit 2.2.7-1 
> generates a binary package named libnunit2.2.7-cil,

> I think this numbering business is a major source of confusion ...
See the CLI policy for the reasoning behind this. This works similarly
to sonames for standard packages (e.g. the GTK+ 2.14.1 package is
still called 'libgtk2.0-0'. 

Cheers,

Jelmer

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