Re: About this ocaml versioning stuff

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:36:50PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:09:45PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > >  libfoo-<foo_version>-ocaml-<ocaml_version>[-dev].
> > *Caugh* *Caugh*
> 
> It's now my opinion that the library version should not be part of the
> package name nor listed in any metapackage name or similar.
> 
> Dependencies between libraries are better handled through normal >>, >=,
> ... constraints in debian/control file. Is more painful for the
> maintainer but really more flexible and easy to remember in the long
> run. My md5sum tools could help in kowing where a library is going to
> break other libraries.
> 
> So, libfoo-ocaml-<ocaml_version>[-dev] should be enough.

Mmm, and what about lablgtk ? we already have liblablgtk-ocaml and
liblablgtk2-ocaml.

BTW, maybe libfoo-ocaml-dev could also provide foo, to help users (and
ourselves also) easily finding them and installing them ?

This would be only for convenience, no other packages should depend on
it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther