Sorry, replying to my own message, I have just stumbled upon the Debian Shared Library Packaging guide (http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#naminglibpkg ). Which explains the solution to my problem.
Chris On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:46 +0100, Chris Baines wrote: > Hello Mentors, > > I am looking at releasing the next upstream version of simgear as this > is holding back both one of my upcoming packages (fgrun) and the > upgrading of the FlightGear program. > > The source package (old) currently produces two binary packages > simgear1.9.1 and simgear-dev. I am wondering why the former package is > named simgear1.9.1 and not just simgear as 1.9.1 is the version? > > Initially I thought it was because is allows it to be installed > alongside another version of the package but this is not possible as it > conflicts with all other versions of simgear. > > Thanks, > > Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1280421138.10526.3.ca...@chris-debian-desktop