Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-27 Thread Ricardo Javier Cardenes
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:18:08AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > or > > > > libsip.so.2.python2.1.x.y... ugly! it is even possible? > > That sounds best to me in the absence of any better coordination from > upstream, or being able to use a single libsip. I agree that it's ugly, > though. >

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:38:19PM +0100, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > going slightly off-topic, this problem is a good example of i dubt i > always had with debian sonames. shouldn't a package name libfoo4 provide > a library named libfoo.so.4.x.x? That depends on whether the library is actually

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 20:01, dman wrote: [snip] > package > libsip2-python2.1 > contains > /usr/lib/libsip2-python2.1.so > > o provides libsip version 2 linked against python 2.1 going slightly off-topic, this problem is a good example of i dubt i always had with debian sonames.

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:24:32PM +, Ricardo Javier Cardenes wrote: | On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:37:58AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: | > In any case, it is the same basic problem for any multi-version packages; | > you need to either make them co-exist properly so they can both be installed

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 19:24, Ricardo Javier Cardenes wrote: [snip] > That's the point. There's no problem with PyQt. It's a Python module and > both it and its extension shared object reside at > /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages. My problem is about libsip. If libsip > has to be at /usr/lib (as it'

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-26 Thread Ricardo Javier Cardenes
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:37:58AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:52:51PM +, Ricardo Javier Cardenes wrote: > Maybe I'm an idiot and I don't fully understand the problem... but what's > the problem? Probably I explained bad the problem, or even there's no problem,

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-26 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:52:51PM +, Ricardo Javier Cardenes wrote: > > I'm re-packaging 'sip' and 'python-pyqt' to make them comply the new > Policy, but I've just found a problem. Let me explain it a bit: > > - sip is a tool that helps creating Python wrappers over C++ classes. >It pa