Re: [DebianGIS] Re: gdal
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:42:07AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:25:29AM -0500, Steve Halasz wrote:
> > still think it's worth uploading 1.3.1. I'm still not sure what the name
> > of the library package should be. Based on more reading of the library
> > packaging guide I don't think libgdal2 is good because the soname is
> > still libgdal.so.1 and the name is supposed to match the soname. How
> > about libgdal1.3.1-1? So the upload would be libgdal1.3.1-1-1. What
> > could be more clear?
> >
>
> Correlating the builting soname with the package name is not mandatory.
> I would hope that minor version is supefluous, due to pure minor fixes
> without api changes (as it should be!), so something like
> libgdal1.3 would suffice.
BTW, I would think to move away the C++ part ASAP in a specific package
with a versioned name. That transition requires time...
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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