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Re: Debian-Alpha port ideas...please read (long)



On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Nikita Schmidt wrote:

> The "g" problem only affects a limited set of currently existing
> libraries (libraries which have never been built for libc5 won't get the
> annoying "g"), and I think it is feasible for us just to fix (or break? :-)
> all the "g" libs to free other arch maintainers from making tough
> decisions under fakeroot.

Hmmm....more in a sec...

> I don't remember exactly, but the policy says something like that "g"
> should only be added if there is a libc5 version of the library and the
> package name of the libc6 version would be indistinguishable from the
> libc5 version without this "g".  In other words, if I'm not mistaken, it
> is a policy suggestion for us to drop the annoying "g".

I agree with your observation regarding this.  What does everyone think of
this?  I also think that if we make a decision like dropping the "g"s that
we may want to at least mention this on debian-policy.

Chris


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