Re: Library handling in squeeze + 1

["Jan-Pascal van Best" <janpascal@vanbest.org>]

On Thu, August 12, 2010 11:26, Niels Thykier wrote:
> The reason is that if the library is in /usr/share/java it would be
> considered a public library (just as C libraries in /usr/lib) and
> therefore it would need to be in a library package to declare its ABI
> version[1]. You cannot do that with a program package (unless you start
> adding ABI versions to the program package name which would probably be
> "less than optimal solution").

Ah yes, I didn't realise you were explicitly speaking of /programs/ and
not of /libraries/.

Thanks

Jan-Pascal