[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#800481: Bug#800481: dcmtk: versioned -dev package makes transitions too painful

[Gert Wollny]

On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 15:57 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Forgot to quote section §8.4 Development files
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s
> -sharedlibs-dev
> 
> [...]
> If there are development files associated with a shared library, the
> source package needs to generate a binary development package named
> librarynamesoversion-dev, or if you prefer
> [...]
> 

And the sentence continues 

[...] 
, or if you prefer only to support one development version at a time,
libraryname-dev. 
[...]

IMHO adding the so-name to the -dev package makes only sense if the
different -dev packages can co-exist, like , e.g., libgtk2.0-dev and
libgtk3-dev, something that is clearly not the case for the 
libdcmtkN-dev packages, because here we talk about a transition. 

Best, 
Gert