For the library packaging policy as discussed previously this is an example on how to fix an offending package. We take the example of curl, as we have (ick) compat-curl2 and compat-curl3 packages alread, which is a mess.
Curl currently is split into curl providing the /usr/bin/curl binrary and the /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.X library and a curl-devel package with development files. The library packaging policy forces you to split off a libcurl4 package with just the libcurl.so.4* shared libraries. The library packaging policy forces you to rename curl-devel to either libcurl-devel or libcurl4-devel if you want to support development with different curl versions. We choose not to and rename it to libcurl-devel which will depend on libcurl4 for this version. For the renaming you need a proper Provides: curl-devel and Obsoletes: curl-devel dependency for update to work. The split off of libcurl4 does not require anything special as shared lib requirements will take care of what is necessary. [Yes, I've started on the above, no need to do it for curl, but please consider fixing your package early if you ever had the need to provide compat-* packages and fix your package the next time you touch it otherwise] Thanks, Richard. -- Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
