Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> The recent thread on names of library packages on debian-devel made me
> decide that I made a mistake in naming one of my packages.
> Specifically, the vips7.10 source package creates four binary
> packages: libvips7.10, libvips7.10-dev, libvips7.10-tools, and
> libvips7.10-doc. There's no reason for the version number to be in
> the name of the package since there's no reason to support more than
> one version of this library at a time.
A more conservative approach would be to rename just libvips7.10-dev,
libvips7.10-tools and libvips7.10-doc, and wait for the next ABI
change to get rid of libvips7.10.
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