Re: RFC: policy supplement for library packages
Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De> writes:
> based on | package name | hierarchy locations
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> libc6 | libfoo-dev | /usr/{lib,include}
> libc5 | libfoo-libc5-altdev | /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/{lib,include}
>
> For the transition time there may be packages based on libc5 which
> use the standard location. These have to conflict with libc6-dev,
> however.
>
> libc5 | libfoo-libc5-dev | /usr/{lib,include}
Why would there be any packages of this form? Maintainers are
supposed to rerelease existing -dev packages with the new names if
they don't intend to go to libc6 right away?
Also, the new libc5 packages could be more simply named
libfoo-libc5-dev.
Guy
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