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Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?



On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote:
> I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has
> split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The
> library is probably not very useful without nemiver itself being
> installed.
>
> Is it ok to avoid splitting out a separate libnemiver-common0 package, and
> instead ship the library file in the nemiver binary package?

I believe in this case it is OK to keep the library within the main binary
package. You'll need to place the SOs in /usr/lib/$PACKAGE, of course.



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