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



> > > 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).

what happens when libmpeg up's it's soname a couple times.  Then under normal
packaging standards the package would be called libmpeg3.  I'm not talking
about the actual libraries as I don't know what the library name itself is
called...I'm just refering to package names.  Normal Debian packaging suggests
that libmpeg1 and libmpeg3 would be the same program, just different sonames.
Thus a conflict if they are not.

Ivan

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