Re: Bug#146786: debhelper: deb packages should contain SONAME
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> immo vero scripsit:
> To answer your question, it is appropriate to use libfoo-dev as a
> package name if you intend to only ever support installing one version
> of a -dev package at a time. Since it's easy enough to work things out
> later if you change your mind (by introducing a libfoo2-dev), I'd
> recommend starting with libfoo-dev, but that is up to the discretion of
> the individual maintainer.
>
> See policy 11.3, paragraph 3. I don't know what this libpkg-guide is,
> but it needs to be fixed to not contradict policy.
Yeah, and that discretion of the individual maintainer has
caused enough problems that I decided to write the guide.
regards,
junichi
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