Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > 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?
Well, actually, I think he's got a point, at least *for this particular case*. Without a versioned -dev package, certain things might be rendered unbuildable. > (libc6-dev wasn't entirely source compatible between 2.0 and 2.1 --- there > were issues with errno and so forth, Between 2.0 and 2.1? I know that between libc5 and 6, errno's status as a macro changed (I forget which way) to deal with threading, but I thought 2.0 and 2.1 were explicitly compatible at the source level (if not always at the binary level). Mike.
