Re: renaming a package
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Oohara Yuuma wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:04:07 +1000,
> Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@debian.org> wrote:
> > I intend to rename the glut packages from
> > glutg3
> > glutg3-dev
> > to
> > libglut3
> > libglut-dev
> > to follow the convention for library package naming.
> I prefer libglut3-dev .
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.
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