Hi all, I intend to package the "giza" library [1] that is largely a replacement of the pgplot library that is in Debian non-free. Pgplot is an all-in-one package that contains among others the following libraries and header file (no pkgconfig file here):
/usr/include/cpgplot.h /usr/lib/libcpgplot.a /usr/lib/libcpgplot.so /usr/lib/libcpgplot.so.5 /usr/lib/libcpgplot.so.5.2.2 (also libpgplot.* which follows the same scheme; everything below also applies to libpgplot) The giza package originally builds the following libraries, header file, and pkgconfig file: /usr/include/cpgplot.h /usr/lib/<arch>/libgiza.a /usr/lib/<arch>/libgiza.so /usr/lib/<arch>/libgiza.so.0 /usr/lib/<arch>/libgiza.so.0.1.4 /usr/lib/<arch>/libcpgplot.a /usr/lib/<arch>/libcpgplot.so /usr/lib/<arch>/libcpgplot.so.0 /usr/lib/<arch>/libcpgplot.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/<arch>/pkgconfig/cpgplot.pc My question is now how to create the packages. As far as I understand the policy, there are no rules wrt. conflicts to non-free, right? I would now just rename the libcpgplot.* to libcpgplot_giza.*, and then create the following packages: * giza-dev (Conflicts: pgplot) /usr/include/cpgplot.h /usr/lib/<arch>/libgiza.a /usr/lib/<arch>/libgiza.so /usr/lib/<arch>/libcpgplot_giza.a /usr/lib/<arch>/libcpgplot_giza.so /usr/lib/<arch>/pkgconfig/cpgplot.pc * libgiza0 /usr/lib/<arch>/libgiza.so.0 /usr/lib/<arch>/libgiza.so.0.1.4 * libcpgplot-giza0 /usr/lib/<arch>/libcpgplot_giza.so.0 /usr/lib/<arch>/libcpgplot_giza.so.0.0.0 This way, programs *using* the non-free pgplot could coexist with programs using the giza implementation, but not the development version. Packages that need pgplot for compilation and using pkgconfig can just depend on giza-dev; if they don't use pkgconfig the linker flag should be changed to -lcpgplot_giza. However, giza-dev and pgplot cannot coexist. Is this the optimal solution or shall I change something? If you want to review the package, see [2] Best regards Ole [1] https://bugs.debian.org/649602 [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/giza.git
