[PPL-devel] Re: RFC: packaging the PPL for RedHat and Debian

[Michael Tautschnig]

>
> ... that kills my idea anyway :-) I'll try to provide a summary as of 
> tomorrow morning - thanks for the links!
>

So - it's not "morning" anymore, but finally I found the time to read the 
articles - and a really short summary would read:

- The Name: lib<libraryname><soversion> and lib<libraryname>-dev , if 
there is no need for multiple versions of the dev-files.

- The Contents: Any additional binary (such as ppl_lcdd) might go into 
lib<libraryname><soversion>-runtime or lib<libraryname>-dev ; Furthermore 
only lib<libraryname>-dev may (and should) provide a symbolic link in 
/usr/lib/lib<libraryname>.so to /usr/lib/lib<libraryname>.so.<soversion>

Furthermore, it is ok to have multiple libraries in a single package. 
Last, but not least, the shlibs-system should be used to provide the 
necessary dependency-information - please read and follow

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-shlibdeps

HTH,
Michael