Re: Once again: libc6 packages compatibility etc...
Christian Schwarz writes:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Brian White wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > Is that correct (including the `g' placement) ?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Actually I placed the `g' before the version in my package. What is
> > > > > > > the correct way to do this? What is Redhat doing?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So what's the consensus for the `g' ? Before of after the lib soname ?
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll put my vote in for "after". It makes it much easier to see. When
> > > > > the "g" is right next to the text name, it's easy to miss.
> > > > >
> > > > I agree completely!
> > >
> > > No, I think it's bad. Some packages do have letters in their version
> > > numbers (eg. libtool_1.0b). It may at least be legal, even if there is
> > > no lib like "libfoo3c" (are there any ?). At least there is possible
> > > ambiguity between "libfoo version 3g, libc5-compiled" and "libfoo
> > > version 3, libc6-compiled".
...I retract myself. Yes, there don't seem to be cases where the
*major* version number does contain a final letter. It's probably
better to use "libfoo3g" than "libfoog3".
> > What do you think of my other proposal? (i.e. dropping the "lib" prefix)
>
> I don't think that the prefix is really "redundant". Of course, if you
Yes, it is redundant in *most* cases. However:
* as it has been already mentionned, dropping "lib" from "xlib" or
"libc" doesn't look too good to me
* several packages already do not contain "lib"
Thus, it seems to me a good idea to drop "lib" in package names where
possible, but IMHO this cannot systematically be used to distinguish
libc5 from libc6 packages.
However, this can be done, but then the whole distribution will be
inconsistent.
> look in the archive you have the directory "libs", but you don't see this
> in the output of "dpkg -l".
>
> Just my 2 cents,
cents++
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