Re: lablgtk2 override disparity
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:47:09AM -0400, Debian Installer wrote:
>> There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the
>> override file for the following file(s):
>>
>> liblablgtk2-ocaml_0.beta.20030423-2_i386.deb: package says section is libs, override says devel.
>>
>> Either the package or the override file is incorrect. If you think
>> the override is correct and the package wrong please fix the package
>> so that this disparity is fixed in the next upload. If you feel the
>> override is incorrect then please reply to this mail and explain why.
>
> Now, i am a bit baffled, i don't really know who is the human reading
> this, but my understanding of the libdevel section stuff and such is
> that :
>
>
> o All libfoo-ocaml packages should go into the libs section.
> They are runtime libraries needed to actually run the binaries
> linked to them.
>
> o All libfoo-ocaml-dev packages should go into the libdevel section
> (would be nice if the changelog vim syntax would know about them
> also though). They are needed to build binaries, and as thus are
> rightly placed in the development library section.
>
> o But what about the foo source package which contain these two ?
> Should it also have a section, and if yes, which ?
They should go into libs. Moved.
--
James
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