Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Stephen Frost * Henning Makholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In summary: Yes, one could probably work around the lack of versions in the -dev packages name, but the result would be (in my view) significantly less elegant than having it there. Trying to support unsupported versions

Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anybody advocating that we should try to support unsupported versions of libraries? I'm certainly not. Sure! That's what libc5 is. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anybody advocating that we should try to support unsupported versions of libraries? I'm certainly not. Sure! That's what libc5 is. I'm not aware of even having mentioned libc5 in this thread (and I don't remember

Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anybody advocating that we should try to support unsupported versions of libraries? I'm certainly not. Sure! That's what libc5 is. I'm not aware of even having

Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anybody advocating that we should try to support unsupported versions of libraries? I'm certainly not. Sure! That's what libc5 is.

Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-12 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Frank Küster wrote: Do I understand right that you recommend not to use libfoo1-dev, libfoo2-dev generally, but that the most recent version should be just libfoo-dev? The Debian library packaging guide gives the opposite advice, to use