On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 14:17:29 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > In our Debian packages, I propose to move the EMBOSS libraries from /usr/lib, > for instance in /usr/lib/emboss/lib, and to merge the packages libajax6, > libajax6-dev, libnucleus6, libnucleus6-dev, into the emboss-lib package. This > will also prevent package renaming or confusion when versions 7 and higher of > EMBOSS will be released. > > Together with a change of section, it will also make the EMBOSS libraries > private from a Debian point of view, and solve our problem with emboss-lib that > currently does not respect the Policy with the eplplot library (a fork of the > plplot library that should not be used outside EMBOSS). > If the libraries are used outside of their own source package (which is the case here for embassy-*, AIUI), then they are not private, and need to be versioned correctly so those other packages can link against them and get proper dependencies. Cheers, Julien
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