Bug#624764: ITP: trng -- Tina's Random Number Generator Library
On Sun, 08 May 2011, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> Ok, that makes sense. I was (most likely incorrectly) under the
> impression that the names (package and library file) had to be the
> same, since I previously got a lintian warning about this (before I
> included the 4-0 in libtrng4-0).
Well, I was looking at the package name in the ITP, which was "trng".
libtrng is not that bad for a binary package, mostly because the lib itself
will be called libtrng, anyway.
I must ask something else: we usually do not package libraries unless we
will also have binary packages that depend on them, or they have a _large_
userbase outside of the distro. Do any of those conditions apply?
> However, I'll read up here regarding package names:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html
>
> Anyway, if I change the package name, would I need to report a
> second ITP with a different package name, or can an upload of a
> renamed package close this particular ITP?
No need to file a second ITP or retitle the ITP bug.
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