Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Francesco Pedrini wrote: > After the inspection of the new code and the discover of the new library > I have a problem with the design of the new package structure, because > if I follow the splitting scheme written above I'll have: > > kmobiletools - the real application; > libkmobiletools - t

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-22 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:17:50 +0200, Benjamin Mesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > According to Policy, Chapter 8.1 "the run-time shared library needs to > be placed in a package whose name changes whenever the shared object > version changes". You might need to do that, though I am not sure if > thi

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-22 Thread Francesco Pedrini
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:28, Bas Wijnen wrote: > It's even better. If a library is not meant (by the Debian > maintainer, who usually follows upstream) to be used by any other > package, then it may be installed in the binary package which uses > it. The new library was implemented in order

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-22 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:17:50AM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > According to Policy, Chapter 8.1 "the run-time shared library needs to > be placed in a package whose name changes whenever the shared object > version changes". You might need to do that, though I am not sure if > this statement is

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-22 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, > > Either way, I don't think that's too much splitting, but you could > > eliminate one library by mergeing the packages for libkmobiletools_at > > and libkmobiletools together. > > Ok, then I will have: > > kmobiletools > libkmobiletools > libkmobiletools-dev > and kmobiletools-plug

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-21 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Francesco Pedrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, then I will have: > > kmobiletools > libkmobiletools > libkmobiletools-dev > and kmobiletools-plugin-kontact. > > It seems fine, I can always split the phone engines in a separated > package when the GAMMU engine (and maybe others) will be added

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-21 Thread Francesco Pedrini
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 02:09, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > Can kmobliletools-plugin-kontact (or anything else out there based > on libkmobiletools) operate independantly of the main application? If > not, the only split might need to be the kontact plugin vs. > kmobiletools, to avoid kmobile

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-21 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Francesco Pedrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After the inspection of the new code and the discover of the new library > I have a problem with the design of the new package structure, because > if I follow the splitting scheme written above I'll have: > > kmobiletools - the real application; >