Bug#708566: library -dev naming policy encourages unnecessary transitions
Le Mon, May 20, 2013 at 07:33:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Perhaps, but I think we just lack better documentation and advice when
> > it comes to shared library handling in general.
>
> > There was an attempt by Junichi Uekawa (CCed) some time ago [L], but
> > AFAIR some people shunned it because supposedly it contained inaccuracies
> > or suboptimal advice (I've to confess I never reviewed it). IMO these
> > should have been corrected instead of trying to banish it from Debian.
> > I think something like that should be revived, reviewed and subsumed
> > into the policy manual or the devref.
>
> > [L] <http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html>
>
> I'm wholeheartedly in favor of this, and even had some thoughts from time
> to time about helping with (or adopting) that guide and rolling it into
> Policy. But I haven't been doing a very good job finding time for Debian
> things lately. I'd love to see someone take this on.
Hi all,
in addition, for those who might be discouraged by the difference of format
(Policy in debiandoc, library guide in DocBook), we plan to convert the policy
to DocBook, I hope within this release cycle.
(The Developers Reference is already in DocBook)
Cheers,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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