Re: Packages violating policy 8.2
Thomas Girard <thomas.g.girard@free.fr> writes:
> 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
Thanks. Much appreciated.
MfG
Goswin
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