Re: .so's in devel packages...

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:39:40 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > And again, this is not the full story. > > I was trying to keep it simple. The simplified case/explanation is what encourages packagers to misplace .so files. For example, -devel packages that contain .so files but no header files s

Re: .so's in devel packages...

2012-06-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:50 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:25:12 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 18:23 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > I have a doubt re

Re: .so's in devel packages...

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:25:12 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 18:23 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have a doubt regarding the '.so's' in devel packages... From my > > understanding they go in devel p

Re: .so's in devel packages...

2012-06-18 Thread Nelson Marques
Adam, Thanks, this helps a lot understanding a bit more around shared libraries; NM 2012/6/18 Adam Williamson > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 18:23 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> I have a doubt regarding the '.so's' in devel packages...

Re: .so's in devel packages...

2012-06-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 18:23 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > Hi all, > > > I have a doubt regarding the '.so's' in devel packages... From my > understanding they go in devel packages to allow the installation of > several packages with different versioning

Re: .so's in devel packages...

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:23:16 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > Hi all, > > > I have a doubt regarding the '.so's' in devel packages... From my > understanding they go in devel packages to allow the installation of > several packages with different versioning &g

.so's in devel packages...

2012-06-18 Thread Nelson Marques
Hi all, I have a doubt regarding the '.so's' in devel packages... From my understanding they go in devel packages to allow the installation of several packages with different versioning Who defined this? Is this part of some standards (ex: LSB, etc) ? Is there some writte