Re: Need help with SONAME and dcmtk package
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:28:03PM +0100, Juergen Salk wrote:
> Yes. The library package name should reflect the soname attribute.
… if upstream increments the SONAME correctly. It's totally OK to use
an integer instead that's just increased every time the ABI actually
changes.
> At least the libdcmtk2-dev package must have a conflicts against the
> previous version in order to prevent two versions installed at the
> same time, which would cause a filename clash of the header files
> included in the packages.
I'd recommend to have only one libdcmtk-dev package, always containing/
depending on the most recent version of the library. That way it's
trivial to rebuild all dependent packages as it does not involve changing
their Build-Depends.
Best regards,
Manuel
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