Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

[Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>]

Petteri Räty wrote:
> 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).

For a binary distribution like Debian there are other issues, for instance
*how to generate dependencies on the correct package versions when building
packages,
*how to make sure that dependents use the correct library version at
run-time.

I think we will need something similar to the shlibs system, no?

Marcus