Re: xlibmesa naming and relationships
On Don, 2003-02-06 at 06:05, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:32:55PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > On Mit, 2003-02-05 at 21:24, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > Given that the soversion isn't terribly meaningful in the case of Mesa,
> > > in my opinion the library package name should communicate the major
> > > version number of Mesa itself.
> >
> > I still don't see how that is meaningful.
>
> It appears to be meaningful to the upstream developers of Mesa!
Sure, so isn't it funny that the current actual Mesa packages aren't
called mesag5*?
Anyway, we're discussing the xlibmesa packages here, and you're still
dodging the question how it's meaningful for those.
> > Well, I am trying to get work done, with packages that have a
> > relationship to those in question, and I think it's unnecessarily
> > hard, for no good reason.
>
> What's hard about it?
It breaks every time the name changes.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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