Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > If you're bumping a library soname, you should do precisely one of > precisely two things: > > (a) Bump the revision of the library package > (eg libfoo1.deb -> libfoo2.deb, libfoo.deb -> libfoo5.deb, whatever) > > Optionally bump the revision of the -dev package's Provides > (eg libfoo-dev Provides: libfoo1-dev -> libfoo-dev Provides: > libfoo2-dev) [...] > _or_ > > (b) Create a copy of the existing package "libfoo.dsc" called > "libfoo1.dsc". Rename "libfoo-dev" to "libfoo1-dev". Move them to > Section: oldlibs. > > Update "libfoo.dsc" to the new version as per (a).
Do I understand right that you recommend not to use libfoo1-dev, libfoo2-dev generally, but that the most recent version should be just libfoo-dev? The Debian library packaging guide gives the opposite advice, to use libfoo<number>-dev always, but I have learned that this document does not represent a consensus, anyway. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
