Re: ITP: libmpeg3 -- an mpeg audio and video decoding library

[Joshua Haberman <joshua@debian.org>]

* Ivan E. Moore II (rkrusty@tdyc.com) wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:06:57PM -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Libmpeg3 decodes
> 
> It appears it's going to clash with an already existing package:
> 
> Package: libmpeg1

I don't see why it would. "3" is a part of the name of the library, not
a version number, similar to Imlib2. You'd link against it with -lmpeg3,
which would distinguish it from libmpeg (where 1 is just the version
number).

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