Re: Best practise for a drop-in replacement of a non-free package
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Ole Streicher wrote:
>
>> My question is more the first step , which includes giza as a library
>> with the /potential/ to replace pgplot, but without a strong
>> recommendation.
>
> Since the SONAMEs are different, you probably can just ship it as is,
> without renaming the libraries. Only thing that would be needed is the
> Conflicts between the -dev package and the pgplot equivalent.
>
> Upstream will need to be aware that SONAME 5 is for the non-free
> version and they should not use it until they are binary-compatible
> with it.
OK, this is the simplest solution ofcourse. As I said, I don't have
experiences with upstream, however.
Best regards
Ole
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