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Bug#708566: library -dev naming policy encourages unnecessary transitions



Hi,

At Mon, 20 May 2013 19:33:43 -0700,
Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> 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.

Some preconditions from that time has changed, and major change since
then has been that binary-only uploads are much easier
infrastructure-wise than before that there's less reason to rename a
-dev package than when this was authored about 8 years ago.

The last time I seriously worked on this document was 2006 and in the
hindsight, I was learning this stuff as I wrote this document, there
must be inaccuracies. But I lack the motivation to revise this
document now.

> 
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
> 


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