Re: Autotools (library + binary) to debian packages

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:47 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 06:25:12PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :
> > If the libfoo-dev is _very_ small and feels silly as a separate package,
> > you can include its files in libfoo0 and make that Provides: libfoo-dev,
> > but what does this win you?
> 
> Problems with multi-arch ?
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/07/msg00861.html

And not even with multiarch. It breaks smooth transitions of libraries.
Since the include files and friends are not ABI-versioned, you will not
be able to install libfoo0 and libfoo1 at the same time (you need
appropriate conflicts and replaces), thus defeating the purpose of ABI
versioning in the package name.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler