On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I know, but as written before, IMHO the abi version number should > not be encoded in the package name. Usually you just get a new > abi, but no new functionality, so why introduce a new name? Just > to work around the limitations of dpkg? It is my suggestion to > extend dpkg instead. Look, nice theory, but we're dealing with the realities of Debian today.