On Wed, 27 May 2009, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
At "Hints" the policy says: "There is no need to have a binary package that matches the source package name. In fact, you should avoid renaming the source package for different versions as we prefer to only have a single package version in the source repository."
Thinking about this, isn't better to rename the source package? a) Renaming the package allows to have multiple versions in the source repository... but you are still free to have only one, whatever the name is.
True, but usually this is not the case.
b) There isn't too much flexibility at naming the debug packages, the name always is
-debug*. Renaming also the source package you allow the debug packages of two library versions with different sonames to be also installed at the same time.
The proper fix for this is to create separate debuginfo packages for
each shared library package, not renaming the source package.
Richard.
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Richard Guenther