On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:15:44 +1000 Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:00:43PM +0200, Antonio Ospite wrote: > > There is an issue with the package name, lintian says: > > > W: libptp2: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libptp2-1 > > > but libptp2 is not intended to be the second version of libptp, it > > is a different thing and so I (and the upstream author) think that > > the package should be named libptp2 and not libptp2-SONAMEVERSION > > as the library policy would suggest. May I override the lintian > > warning about this issue? > > sonames go in the library package name so that different versions of > the library with the same name but different soversions are parallel- > installable. > > libptp2, which you've suggested, is libptp soversion 2. What you said > you want is what lintian suggests, libptp2 soversion 1: "libptp2-1" > well, actually libptp2 is libptp2 soversion 1, the shared object file is named libptp2.so.1. The upstream asked me to call the package libptp2 and not libptp2-1, should I follow his request? > This means you'll get libptp2-dev and libptp2-bin (if you need a -bin) > associated packages. > I don't understand here; if the package is called libptp2-1, hasn't the dev package to be named libptp2-1-dev ? Thanks and regards, Antonio. -- Public key: http://shell.studenti.unina.it/~ospite/aopubkey.asc Web Site: http://shell.studenti.unina.it/~ospite
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