Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (105 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:37:56PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> 
> > it was recently (in bugreport 277317) brought to my attention that we 
> > have three packages containing development files, but not being named 
> > with a "-devel" suffix:
> > 
> 
> > wnn-sdk
> 
> This is not a subpackage of something, but really a package in it's own.  
> IOW upstream calls it like so, we shouldn't differ without good reasons, 
> so this name would be IMO okay.
> 
> > OpenOffice_org-sdk
> > xorg-x11-server-sdk
> 
> About these I'm less sure.  The xorg-x11-server-sdk indeed only contains 
> stuff you usually would expect from your random -devel package.  In one 
> way it's different: this package is for developing other X11 server code, 
> not for normal developers doing X11 stuff, i.e. more or less an artifact 
> of the big split of X11 into modules (I realize that this characterization 
> is a bit stretching).  It could reasonably be named xorg-x11-server-devel, 
> but I don't see a big reason to enforce that name. It's not that anyone 
> who doesn't know the current name would want to have it.
> 
> OpenOffice_org-sdk could also be named -devel I think.  It mostly contains 
> IDL defs and UNO interfaces.  OTOH it doesn't contain libraries to 
> directly link against, something which I would expect in a random -devel 
> package.
> 
> > I was wondering if there is a special policy regarding the -sdk suffix 
> > that I'm not aware of? Shouldn't those packages be named -devel?

It's not a policy, but xorg-x11-server-sdk is the package name, that
other distributors use for these files as well. I'm not aware of
anyone using xorg-x11-server-devel. I don't see much benefit for
renaming it besides from confusing our customers by constantling
renaming our X11 packages.

Best regards,
Stefan

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