On 1/17/11 2:19 AM, "Tapio Rantala" <[email protected]> wrote:

> pe, 2011-01-14 kello 14:55 +0100, ext Carsten Munk kirjoitti:
>> Think it originates from the history of mce-dev in Maemo - mce-dev was
>> seperated from mce long ago so the source code for it was available
>> (and it was used in all Maemo Hildon apps, practically).
>>
>> mce was closed source back then. mce-devel probably defines the D-Bus
>> interface.
>
> Yes, it has only the dbus interface definition, only #defines. Also I
> think there was a circular build dependency at one point which was
> solved by this separation (this doesn't apply in meego). IMHO it would
> be good it they would be combined under single source again.
>
>>> Exactly, also I'm curious why such package has different version than mce
>>> source tar ball?
>
> It's a interface, which is stable compared to mce internals. It would be
> clearer if the versions matched, but it seems silly to push new versions
> only to change the version number.

I agree, let's just the versions the way they are, and the .spec correctly 
defines which version of mce is needed in any case...

>
>>>> since mcd-devel only has headers, I would propose to call the package
>>>> mce-headers, since -devel package are usually sub-packages of a main
>>>> package,
>>>> just to avoid confusion.
>
> I'd be happy to use -headers if that is the consensus. Then I might
> wonder why other -devel packages with only headers are not renamed to
> -headers.

If you can just rename the pkg to mce-headers, that would be great...

Thanks,

rs

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