Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] New mscripts package [was: Re: Updating octave3.0 to Policy 3.8.0]
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:15:24PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com> [2008-09-12 11:36]:
>
> > Am Freitag, den 12.09.2008, 11:34 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > >
> > > What name do you prefer for the new arch-indep package?
> >
> > octave3.X-common?
>
> "Common" to what? Naming a package *-common makes sense when there are more
> than one other packages that depend it. For instance, the mysql-client-5.0
> and mysql-client-5.1 depend on mysql-common. This later contains the files
> that are *_common_* to both versioned packages.
mercurial-common
evolution-common
...
That said, I don't really care that much.
Thomas
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