On Wednesday 31 March 1999, at 1 h 37, the keyboard of Pedro Guerreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why does the Package names have a _1_ in them? Because you may have several versions (with different sonames) installed at the same time. Unlike RedHat, Debian does not allow several packages with the same name. > I think the _1_ is supposed to be the soname that the debian policy talks > about, but then it definitely should be _2_, right? Right, but dh_make does not find it automagically. Patch debian/control by hand. > OTOH, why is package cgraph1-dev referring to cgraph-dev? This package doesn't > exist. Is he trying to 'create' a virtual package? I think I should delete > those lines, am I right? Read Policy 4.3, specially the beginning. There is a disagreement among Debian developers. (Should a development package include the soname? Most say no.)
