hi... i just want to make sure you leave the option open to package alternative jack versions.
adi said that you somehow seem to believe that there cant be virtual packages containing libraries. this is not true. if you create debian/libjack0.shlibs and put ----------------------------------- libjack 0 WHATEVER ------------------------------------ in it, this will get installed into /var/libs/dpkg/info/libjack0.shlibs and it will result in dh_shlibs generating WHATEVER as a dependency when it encouters something linked against libjack.so.0 so its pretty easy to make libjack0 a virtual package. we already have 3 implementations of jack which are all ABI compatible. and we really want users to be able to use them. its fine if the default is jack2. but please leave the door open for people who have problems with jack2 and are better off with tschack. we (upstream) will make sure they are binary compatible. all symbols added since jack-0.116 are mandated to be weak. if there are any issues with binary compatibility these are bugs. -- torben Hohn _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers