Bug#557765: libfishsound1-dev: The -dev package should be named libfishsound-dev

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sat Mar 20 13:23:46 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:51:01PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
> close 557765
> tags 557765 wontfix
> 
> The debian packaging guide says you can do it both ways and there
> doesn't seem to be a consensus on the right way. I'm going to leave it
> as is.

You can do it both ways, but which way you should choose depends on the
context. If there is no compelling reason not to have a generic -dev
package (e.g. API changes), you shouldn't use one.

Mike





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