On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:05:50AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really think it's a bad idea to have versioned -dev packages. Have > > we really had instances where they have given us any real advantage? > libgtk1.0-dev and libgtk1.2-dev are not source compatible.
So? How did the versioning help? (libc6-dev wasn't entirely source compatible between 2.0 and 2.1 --- there were issues with errno and so forth, eg. Differences in /usr/include/linux and so on made even bigger differences for linux-specific programs, iirc) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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