Re: Bug#708566: library -dev naming policy encourages unnecessary transitions
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> Perhaps, but I think we just lack better documentation and advice when
> it comes to shared library handling in general.
> There was an attempt by Junichi Uekawa (CCed) some time ago [L], but
> AFAIR some people shunned it because supposedly it contained inaccuracies
> or suboptimal advice (I've to confess I never reviewed it). IMO these
> should have been corrected instead of trying to banish it from Debian.
> I think something like that should be revived, reviewed and subsumed
> into the policy manual or the devref.
> [L] <http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html>
I'm wholeheartedly in favor of this, and even had some thoughts from time
to time about helping with (or adopting) that guide and rolling it into
Policy. But I haven't been doing a very good job finding time for Debian
things lately. I'd love to see someone take this on.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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