Library packages depending on data files

[Sebastian Ley <ley@debian.org>]

Hi,

I am packaging a software that contains a library package where the
libraries (several of them in there) depend on some data files.
These data files are stored in the same location for all SO-Versions of
the libraries, so leaving them in the lib- package will lead to filename
clashes when installing multiple SO-Versions of the library package.

I can basically think of two solutions:

1) Split the datafiles out and depend on them in the lib- package. This
will work as long as the data files are backwards compatible. Might lead
to unforseeable errors.

2) Conflict with other versions of the library to disable support of
multiple versions of them.

What do you think?

Sebastian
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