On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: > The -dev package provides virtual ncurses-dev package but it also > needs to conflict with it.
Oops. You told me that. Done. > The symlinks for lib*.so are in the runtime package. They should be > in the -dev package. Makes sense. Done. > The shared libraries for form, menu and panel are in /lib. They > should probably be in /usr/lib unless and until a boot-critical > program needs them /lib. Well, since _nothing_ needs them right now...Done. > The symlink for libcurses.a is wrong. It should point to libncurses.a. Done. > There is no symlink for libcurses.so. There should be one in the -dev > package. OK. Jeff Noxon mentioned that a link for libtermcap.so might also be in order---thoughts? > The runtime package installs the shared libraries as lib*.so.3.0.new > and then renames them to lib*.so.3.0 in the postinst script. This is > fine for not disturbing running programs when the package is being > upgraded, but there is no provision for deleting the files when the > package is removed. Again, I'd like to hear Ian Jackson's thoughts on > adding special installation support for shared libraries to dpkg. For the moment I guess I'll re-rename them in the prerm. Mike. -- "I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."
