[Vincent Bernat] > Or is it better to keep this prefix until a new major version > (unlikely to happen)? Maybe ask the maintainers of the 'zlib1g' package for advice. That 'g' suffix is from an ABI transition in September 1997. (: In all seriousness, Julien is right - this is not worth a package transition. Just wait for the next ABI bump. And if there never is one, oh well. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/