On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:35:37PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > > Incidentally, why is the source package called 'gphoto2'? I see that > > > there is still a 'gphoto' package in Debian; is that not superseded by > > > gphoto 2.0? Are there reasons that someone would need both gphoto and > > > gphoto2 installed on their system, or why some people need one and > > > others need the other? > > > > No gphoto and gphoto2 are really different and both should be available. > > gphoto is a all-in-one package to provide gui access to a digital > > camera. > > gphoto2 is a library which is used by frontend (gui). A command-line > > frontend is included in the package but others are available. > > Then why not libgphoto2? Or something making it more obvious it's a lib?s > YA > Is it not a upstream choice ? But this package include a command-line frontend. Perhaps I should split it in three package (instead of 2) : gphoto2 : command-line front-end libgphoto2 : libraries libgphoto2-dev : to build others front-ends. And perhaps a doc package but it would be really small. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. --Joseph Wood Krutch
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