Re: -dev library package naming
On 14.06.2005, at 14:47, martin f krafft wrote:
Do you have a pointer to the discussion?
Just looking it up in the old thread "Library package naming" I saw
that you told me not to use -release at all when packaging a shared
library. But yes, the naming of the dev package is not explicitly
mentioned. But well, other packages should build-depend on the API
and depend on the ABI. The API is specified by the -release flag and
the ABI by the SONAME. So it is IMO sane to name it libpkg-1.0-dev,
so if there is a new 2.0 API which breaks much of the backwards-
compatibility older software could still be built when a new package
is uploaded for libpkg-2.0-dev.
Just my few cents,
Philipp Kern
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