On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:05:50AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org> wrote:
> > I really think it's a bad idea to have versioned -dev packages. Have
> > we really had instances where they have given us any real advantage?
> libgtk1.0-dev and libgtk1.2-dev are not source compatible.
So? How did the versioning help?
(libc6-dev wasn't entirely source compatible between 2.0 and 2.1 --- there
were issues with errno and so forth, eg. Differences in /usr/include/linux
and so on made even bigger differences for linux-specific programs, iirc)
Cheers,
aj
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