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Re: Large-scale java policy violations



On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 04:42:14PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote:
> 
> > I suggest that we name the packages libfoo-java or in some
> > cases libfoo-version-java if that are necessary.
> >
> > Is that ok if I change the policy in that way?
> 
> Fine in general with me, although I have a question about versions.  Do we
> want libfoo-version-java or libfooversion-java?  To me a package like
> libeditline-5-java seems stranger than libeditline5-java, although perhaps
> that's just me.

Well. Any of the above is ok to me. :)

> Of course then libfooversion-java starts to look like the package simply
> offers bindings to the corresponding C library, which is often not the
> case.
> 
> Not deeply fussed either way.

Well we have both ways in debian now. Should we allow both but prefer
one?

Regards,

// Ola

> Ben.
> 
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