On 24 November 2013 13:56, Arno Töll <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 24.11.2013 13:26, Robert Millan wrote: >> IIRC we don't provide -dev packages because their ABI is not stable. >> Nobody outside of zfsutils uses them, and judging by the dependencies in >> upstream source tree, it seems there are no candidates to use them >> (other than zfsutils): > > We provide those libraries by policy. The Debian policy requires that > libraries are proper versioned and the name of the binary package > changes whenever the SONAME changes. This does not really apply to us > here, because we're the only consumers of these libraries, but since we > install them to /lib we pretend it was a public library. >
That does not impose one binary package per library though. You can ship multiple shared libraries in a single binary package (each with it's own soname). The requirement is that the debian package name versions SONAMES collectively (as in if any of the included libraries bumps soname, the debian package name must be bumped as well). There are plenty of examples in the archive where multiple libraries are shipped in a single package. Here is the first one I found: libgtk-3-0 ships: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.800.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0.800.6 This often makes sense for a set of libraries build from a single source & only released together, which is the case with zfs. Please consider shipping all shared libraries in a signle binary deb/udeb. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUi4qh51jg3379ujs3FBoJZpcA=FrLou+DSsG=tjou6...@mail.gmail.com
