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Re: Naming for OSSP projects in Debian (libraries, dirs)



On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:05:53PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote:
> OSSP work with you. The problem I see with OSSP are the too simple
> names e.g. libsa or libuuid. The header files are also installed
> by default in /usr/include. This will lead in problems for uuid
> more then for sa because Debian provide already more then one
> file with the name uuid.h:
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=uuid.h&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386
> 
> We run in naming conflicts with other packages sooner or later.
> It would be nice if we can have the same name semantic for this
> two OSSP packages. I would propose:

In particular, there is already a libuuid in Debian:
libuuid1: /lib/libuuid.so.1

Cheers,
Bill



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