Re: petsc packages: drop the minor version in package names?

[Jan Groenewald <jan@aims.ac.za>]

I think it sounds good and I've seen before

libpetsc-dev -> depend on latest libpetsc3.6-dev
libpetsc3.6-dev-> depend on latest lbpetsc3.6.x-dev

Users install libpetsc-dev and get the latest, and devs and some users can try other versions to test/compare.

Regards,

Jan

On 15 March 2016 at 19:43, Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org> wrote:

On 15 March 2016 at 12:14, Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> wrote:
> But I'm not certain that anything is gained by having parallel
> installations for a library with the same soname. It could be done,
> e.g. libpetsc3.6-dev could be a virtual package that depends on the
> latest libpetsc3.6.x-dev. But would that provide any real benefit? It
> seems to me that using libpetsc3.6-dev as the dev package would be
> simpler.

Why not simply libpetsc-dev?

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