Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Sam Morris
I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The library is probably not very useful without nemiver itself being installed. Is it ok to avoid splitting out a separate libnemiver-common0 package, and

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Cager
On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The library is probably not very useful without nemiver itself being installed. Is it ok to avoid

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:10:06 +, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The library is probably not very useful without

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:10:06PM -, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The library is probably not very useful

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Cager
Sam Morris wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 18:11 +, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 2:37 pm, Sam Morris wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:10:06 +, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread James Westby
On (19/02/07 14:37), Sam Morris wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:10:06 +, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:10:06PM -, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has split some of its functionality into a

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:36:13PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:10:06PM -, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: No, you should *not* put libraries into subdirectories of /usr/lib unnecessarily. Policy prefers it for this case: 10.2: | Shared object files (often .so files) that are not public

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:03:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: No, you should *not* put libraries into subdirectories of /usr/lib unnecessarily. Policy prefers it for this case:

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:03:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Yes, installing the libraries in /usr/lib. For such packages with libraries without sonames, one should just make something up? If the library is not suitable to being treated like a