Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

[manfred@mosabuam.com]

Quoting Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>:

> manfred@mosabuam.com kirjoitti:
> > Quoting Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>:
> >
> > > Tom Marble wrote:
> > > > Packaging
> > > > ---------
> > >
> > > I think we need to add:
> > >
> > > * Library ABI handling and support for parallel installation of multiple
> > > versions (as discussed in another thread [1]).
> > >
> > > Marcus
> > >
> > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.java/6537
> >
> > Thanks for mentioning it. I second that notion.
> >
> > manfred
>
> We solved this by installing to /usr/share/<pkg>-<slot> where slot is
> roughly the ABI (we increase it every time a new version breaks
> something using the library).

Very nice. So you actually allow a package to be installed in various  
version numbers in parallel? How do you handle man pages and all sorts  
of stuff like that (e.g. executable in /usr/bin has version number in  
command?)

manfred