Re: creating libraries

1999-04-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 08:08:02AM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: > > Yes, GTK+ is not libgtk1. Yes, XForms is not libforms0.88. Yes, FLTK is > > not libfltk1. Yes, GGI is not libggi2. Yes, ncurses is not libncurses4. > > Yes, PAM is not libpam0. Yes, PropList is not libproplist0. Yes, ReadLine > >

Re: creating libraries

1999-04-01 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:16:23AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:57:10PM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: > > > If they are libraries, they should be called lib{-dev}. > > > > Why? Are there any policy regarding this subject? The library is called > > _cgraph_ not _libcgraph_

Re: creating libraries

1999-03-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:37:52AM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: > Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0 You can change this 2.5.0 (of course, once lintian confirms it). > Why does the Package names have a _1_ in them? [snip] If they are libraries, they should be called lib{-dev}. Go to debian/tmp/usr/lib,

Re: creating libraries

1999-03-31 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 31 March 1999, at 1 h 37, the keyboard of Pedro Guerreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does the Package names have a _1_ in them? Because you may have several versions (with different sonames) installed at the same time. Unlike RedHat, Debian does not allow several packages wi

creating libraries

1999-03-31 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
Hi. While creating a library, one question poped to mind: I've got a dir called cgraph-2.04, and when I run dh_make in it, it debianized the source tree (so far so good), but the debian/control file, is like this: -*- Source: cgraph Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Pedro Guerreiro <