Re: Bug#893056: ITP: libpe1 -- The PE library used by pev

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

Including the soname is for the binary package, not the source.  This should be:

Source: libpe
Binary: libpe1

Scott K

On March 17, 2018 5:35:51 PM UTC, Robert Haist <rhaist@mailbox.org> wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>I just had a look at similar packages and also the debian maint-guide
>best practice: 
>
>https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/advanced.en.html
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert Haist
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>> Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> hat am 16. März 2018 um 00:13
>geschrieben:
>> 
>> 
>> On Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:51:11 PM Robert Haist wrote:
>> > Package: wnpp
>> > Severity: wishlist
>> > Owner: Robert Haist <rhaist@mailbox.org>
>> > 
>> > * Package name    : libpe1
>> >   Version         : 1.0.0
>> >   Upstream Author : Fernando Mercês
>> > * URL             : https://github.com/merces/libpe
>> > * License         : LGPLv3
>> >   Programming Lang: C
>> >   Description     : The PE library used by pev
>> > 
>> > Currently the pev package in debian contains the pev tools and the
>library,
>> > because upstream had a single integrated repo in the past. Now
>upstream is
>> > divided in two repos and we have to package the library as
>dependency too.
>> 
>> Is there a reason you picked libpe1 instead of libpe?  Generally
>encoding the 
>> soname in the source package name is not a good practice.
>> 
>> Scott K