Re: Bug#368985: ITP: mod-bt -- BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server
Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> wrote:
> > Odd, because my package depends on libapr0-dev (probably going to be
> > libapr0-dev | libapr1-dev soon), and an apt-cache search for "0-dev" on my
>
> The versionings is when stuff change to incompatible APIs, so probably
> depending on (libfoo0-dev | libfoo1-dev) should not be possible.
>
> If there is no change in APIs, there is no need for versioning of the
> -dev package.
> You can alwayls add a versioning number on api-change.
In APR's case, there are some small incompatibilities in the APIs
between version 0 and version 1, but many packages can still compile
successfully against either.
And yeah, in libbttracker, etc.'s case, I don't plan on changing the
soname until there's an incompatibility.
Cheers,
Tyler
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