Re: Packages violating policy 8.2

[Thomas Girard <thomas.g.girard@free.fr>]

Selon Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>:
> Debian policy says:
>
> | 8.2 Run-time support programs
> |
> | If your package has some run-time support programs which use the
> | shared library you must not put them in the shared library
> | package. If you do that then you won't be able to install several
> | versions of the shared library without getting filename clashes.
> |
> | Instead, either create another package for the runtime binaries
> | (this package might typically be named libraryname-runtime; note the
> | absence of the soversion in the package name), or if the development
> | package is small, include them in there.

[...]

> several packages violate 8.2:

[...]

> libciao0.4.7c2a               Debian ACE+TAO maintainers
> libtao-orbsvcs1.4.7c2a	Debian ACE+TAO maintainers

I have started working on this issue[1], a major package split is planned
for both TAO and CIAO.

Thanks,

Thomas

[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ace/branches/pkg-split