Tags questions

[Justin B Rye]

(I was away over the weekend)

Ethan wrote:
> 2) I'm trying to tag libcompress-raw-zlib-perl, which is a low-level
> interface to the zlib library that isn't used by anything except other,
> higher-level Perl zlib libraries. I would say the average user is going to
> think of it as a role::shared-lib, because even if they develop software,
> they'd probably look for a higher-level zlib library
> (libiocompress-zlib-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl). On the other hand, they
> might want to use it as a role::devel-lib if they're developing for some
> weird situation where the lower-level interface is better (embedded
> systems.. that use Perl? Not sure). For now I tagged it role::devel-lib, but
> I thought it would be helpful to explain why this was a hard decision for me
> and ask. DebTaggingGuidelines says that role::devel-lib is any "code library
> that can be used by developers" [emphasis mine], but edit-help says "*What
> does the package look like from this point of view?*"         

Since it's clear nobody's been listening, I hereby give up my
attempts to explain my interpretation of the difference between
role::devel-lib and ::shared-lib.
-- 
JBR
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