Re: Building against testing is good
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:30:29PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > This would not be a problem if the libgal package also uploaded, along
> > with the new libgal source package, legacy libgalNN source packages
> > which build legacy (section: oldlibs) libgalNN binary packages. But
> > this approach is not normally used for fast-moving unstable libraries.
>
> This is not necessary. All you have to do is to change the source package
> name.
But, if you change the source package name on every version (I assume
that's what you're suggesting?), then you have to change the name of
every binary package: we can't have two different sources generating
the same binary.
In practice this would mean libgal-dev would become libgalNN-dev.
This would mean every package changing its build-depends each time.
Possibly it's even a policy violation: is there policy about naming
-dev packages?
In any case, I think the discussion and disagreement here indicates
the need for a policy on it...
Jules
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