[Pkg-octave-devel] New mscripts package [was: Re: Updating octave3.0 to Policy 3.8.0]

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 21:19:55 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:15:24PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-09-12 11:36]:
> 
> > Am Freitag, den 12.09.2008, 11:34 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > > 
> > > What name do you prefer for the new arch-indep package?
> > 
> > octave3.X-common?
> 
> "Common" to what?  Naming a package *-common makes sense when there are more
> than one other packages that depend it.  For instance, the mysql-client-5.0
> and mysql-client-5.1 depend on mysql-common.  This later contains the files
> that are *_common_* to both versioned packages.

mercurial-common
evolution-common
...

That said, I don't really care that much.

	Thomas



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