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Re: renaming a package



On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 04:34:54PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> We should make versioned -dev (binary) packages the exception, not the norm.
> libglut-dev is better. Think about libglut3-dev, libglut4-dev,
> libglut5-dev etc. and how libglut-dev makes upgrades much easier.

Except that this means the old source packages can't stay around in the
archive, since libglut-dev is generated by both old and new. This makes
transitions more difficult: libglut3 and libglut4 could still coexist on
users' systems, but they could not both be in a distribution at the same
time.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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