On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:29:44AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > You mean http://www.debian.org/~cts/sdlmixer1.0/ > libsdl-mixer-dev_1.0.3-1_i386.deb > libsdl-mixer1.0_1.0.3-1_i386.deb
Yep, that would be fine. > instead of http://www.debian.org/~cts/sdlmixer/ > libsdl-mixer1.0-dev_1.0.3-1_i386.deb > libsdl-mixer1.0_1.0.3-1_i386.deb > ? > > As I understand it, this implies if ever a new version (1.1, 1.2) should > come out, it would no longer be possible to build new packages with the 1.0 > libraries only with the new one? This is desired? AFAIK gtk uses a different > approach (even SDL, where SDL mixer is based uppon). Yes, that's desired. There's rarely a good reason to build with an old version. Usually, all packages using the library are recompiled and the old one removed (-dev and library itself). If you want to continue to support it, then make a seperate dev package later. The advantage of not putting the version in the -dev name is automatic upgrades to the latest development environment for developers, as Michael said. > The problem I see is similar to what we are having with ncurses5 right now. > ncruses4-dev vanished, but some maintainers built packages with it. Can not > be recompiled for other arches now... and its set in the Build-Depends, so > this is a problem for porters... but then, the bug reports should urge the > maintainers to switch :-) ncurses4's dev stuff could reappear in a new -dev if it's really needed. It's better to migrate the stuff to the new version. Cheers Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
