Bug#705306: quagga package should not contain header files and static libraries

2013-04-15 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Len Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:47:03PM -0400, Christian Hammers wrote: >> That sounds reasonable. >> >> Maybe upstream started to put proper versions on the library by then. >> Because else people will file RC bugs if upstream changes the ABI and

Bug#705306: quagga package should not contain header files and static libraries

2013-04-15 Thread Len Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:47:03PM -0400, Christian Hammers wrote: > That sounds reasonable. > > Maybe upstream started to put proper versions on the library by then. > Because else people will file RC bugs if upstream changes the ABI and > I still ship it as .so.0.0.0. Alternatively I could put t

Bug#705306: quagga package should not contain header files and static libraries

2013-04-15 Thread Christian Hammers
Am Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:55:33 -0400 schrieb Len Sorensen : ... > > It would be nice to have quagga package cleanup and split into > > quagga, libquagga0 and libquagga-dev[*], but this hardly qualifies > > as RC bug. > > Oh are policy bugs RC? I do think this qualifies as violating the > policy, a

Bug#705306: quagga package should not contain header files and static libraries

2013-04-15 Thread Len Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:26:13AM -0400, Christian Hammers wrote: > Those libraries are only for "playing around", they are AFAIK still > experimental > and have ABI changes whenever the upstream likes it. Hence they have still the > Version 0.0.0. I wouldn't like to separate them to not give peo

Bug#705306: quagga package should not contain header files and static libraries

2013-04-15 Thread Len Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:11:33AM -0400, Ondřej Surý wrote: > severity 705306 wishlist > thank you > > The Policy Section 8 also says: > > --cut here-- > This section deals only with public shared libraries: shared libraries > that are placed in directories searched by the dynamic linker by > de

Bug#705306: quagga package should not contain header files and static libraries

2013-04-15 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Those libraries are only for "playing around", they are AFAIK still experimental and have ABI changes whenever the upstream likes it. Hence they have still the Version 0.0.0. I wouldn't like to separate them to not give people the impression that they can link to them. I would leave the bu

Bug#705306: quagga package should not contain header files and static libraries

2013-04-15 Thread Ondřej Surý
severity 705306 wishlist thank you The Policy Section 8 also says: --cut here-- This section deals only with public shared libraries: shared libraries that are placed in directories searched by the dynamic linker by default or which are intended to be linked against normally and possibly used by

Bug#705306: quagga package should not contain header files and static libraries

2013-04-12 Thread Len Sorensen
Package: quagga Version: 0.99.22-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 8.4 As far as I understand packaging policy, header files and static libraries must go in a -dev package, and not be included in the main package. After all most people running a program are not going to be compiling add on