Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes I understood correctly. But it is not necessary to make it mandatory >> since it really depends on applications. Those which are source compatible >> won't require it. > > Err, ... it is about libraries, not applications. And the idea is to > bump the virtual provide version when an incompatibility is added. I > know you will know that the current version is source compatible with > the previous one, but how can you now it will be source compatible with > the next version ?
When building a new version of the application depending on the said library. So, the -dev packages don't need such trick. > Also, i am not entirely sure that source compatibility is enough in this > case, not sure though. However, after thinking a bit more, the non-dev packages may need a version number in the package name, because of .so files. We are not sure about binary compatibily are we? -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
