Bug#367984: Policy 8.2 has unclear last sentence
Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
Policy currently reads:
| 8.2 Run-time support programs
|
| If your package has some run-time support programs which use the
| shared library you must not put them in the shared library
| package. If you do that then you won't be able to install several
| versions of the shared library without getting filename clashes.
|
| Instead, either create another package for the runtime binaries
| (this package might typically be named libraryname-runtime; note the
| absence of the soversion in the package name), or if the development
| package is small, include them in there.
The only thing that makes sense putting in a development package would
be compile-time support programs (all those foobar-config programs)
but not run-time support programs like pt_chown (in libc6) or apt-get
(in apt with libapt). Maybe this section could be rephrased like this:
| 8.2 Run-time support programs
|
| If your package has some run-time support programs which use the
| shared library you must not put them in the shared library
| package. If you do that then you won't be able to install several
| versions of the shared library without getting filename clashes.
|
+ Instead create another package for the runtime binaries (this
+ package might typically be named libraryname-runtime; note the
+ absence of the soversion in the package name).
+
+ 8.2.1 Compile-time support programs
+
+ Support programs that are only usefull when compiling software
+ against a library may also be placed into the development package of
+ that library (usualy a <libraryname>-config script).
MfG
Goswin
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