Re: dmraid 1.0.0.rc15-1

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm going to upload dmraid 1.0.0.rc15-1 in unstable.
>
> Relevant changes for d-i:
>
> - Build dmraid shared library for both standard and udeb packages. It will
> likely be used in the future by udev.
> - Create new packages, libdmraid-dev, libdmraid1.0.0.rc15,
> libdmraid1.0.0.rc15-udeb respectively
> - Install /sbin/dmraid-activate[1] also in dmraid-udeb package
> - debian/patches/10_exit_code.patch: Fix exit-code[2] for "No RAID disks" and
> "no block devices found" errors (LP: #300825)
>
>
> Is all of that ok?

Is the API/ABI so unstable that you're using the version on the library
package name?

I'd much prefer it packaged as:

 dmraid
 dmraid-udeb
 libdmraid-1.0
 libdmraid-1.0-udeb
 libdmraid-dev

Any reason to avoid the usual packaging schema for it?
 
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