Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:10:06PM -0000, Paul Cager wrote:
> On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote:
> > I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has
> > split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The
> > library is probably not very useful without nemiver itself being
> > installed.
> > Is it ok to avoid splitting out a separate libnemiver-common0 package, and
> > instead ship the library file in the nemiver binary package?
> I believe in this case it is OK to keep the library within the main binary
> package. You'll need to place the SOs in /usr/lib/$PACKAGE, of course.
No, you should *not* put libraries into subdirectories of /usr/lib
unnecessarily.
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