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Re: keynav: Contains convenience copy of xdotool



On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:22:57AM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote:
> Upstream author does not provide $(SOVER), just a libxdo.so.

Well, upstream needs fixing as well, probably.  I haven't looked at
what upstream has done with the library.
 
> According to search result [1], only keynav uses xdotool as source form.
> Do you suggest a good $(SONAME).$(SOVER) library?

Are you asking for an example Debian package of a library, or are you
asking whether libxdo.so should be in its own package?

libxdo does need to be a publically available library in order for
keynav to use it, which means that it does need a soname.

It's also important that Debian uses the same soname as other
distributions.  The advice is to discuss it with upstream:

http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#upstreambrokensoname

-- 
Tim Retout <tim@retout.co.uk>


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