Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-07-28 Thread Andreas Bombe
retitle 100472 [AMENDMENT 2001-07-28] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion severity 100472 normal thanks On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:55:38AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > Seconded. It's a "may" and not a "must", gives more meaningful > package names, and documents current practice. >

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2001-07-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 100472 [AMENDMENT 2001-07-28] allowing '-' between libraryname and > soversion Bug#100472: [PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion Changed Bug title. > severity 100472 normal Bug#100472: [A

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-07-26 Thread Robert Woodcock
On July 26, 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > * libid3-3.7-13 [...] > I don't see where those numbers come from or why they are useful. id3lib's current soname is: 'libid3-3.7.so.13'. Don't ask me why. I'm open to suggestions, but noone had any better ideas when I originally created the package. I

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-07-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote: > Current practice suggests hyphen instead of dot for including a version > in a package name: mico-2.3.0, kernel-image-2.2.17, cpp-2.95, perl-5.005, > netscape-smotif-475, libgnat-3.13p-1, libbz2-1.0, libid3-3.7-13, ... > just to name a few. Hm, I should have re

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-07-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:06:26PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 > > > for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusi

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-07-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 > > for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusing if the library name > > ends in a number so that the soversion is separ

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-07-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.5.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 > for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusing if the library name > ends in a number so t

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-06-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.5.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 > for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusing if the library name > ends in a number so t

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-06-11 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:51:09PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Andreas Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.5.5.0 > > Severity: wishlist > > > $ egrep '^Package: lib.*-[[:digit:]]*$' unstable-Packages > > Package: lib3ds-1.0-0 > > Package: libasis-3.13p-1 > > P

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-06-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Andreas Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.5.0 > Severity: wishlist > $ egrep '^Package: lib.*-[[:digit:]]*$' unstable-Packages > Package: lib3ds-1.0-0 > Package: libasis-3.13p-1 > Package: libgnat-3.13p-1 > Package: libgtrans-mysql-3-23 > Package: libgtrans-p

Bug#100472: [PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-06-10 Thread Andreas Bombe
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.5.0 Severity: wishlist Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusing if the library name ends in a number so that the soversion is separated with a hyphen from the library name. $ egrep