Bug#447546: libgnomeui-0: Strange package name

Sebastian Dröge slomo at circular-chaos.org
Mon Oct 22 07:45:08 UTC 2007


Am Montag, den 22.10.2007, 09:18 +0200 schrieb Loïc Minier:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > according to lintian, the binary package should follow the soname and be
> > libgnomeui-2-0. Another possible name would be libgnomeui2-0, which
> > would be more in line with the current practice of naming gnome libs.
> > 
> > But libgnomeui-0 is definitely weird. Would you consider a rename or
> > provide reasons why the current naming was chosen?
> 
>  I agree it's anormal, I don't think we will rename the package now.  On
>  the next SONAME change -- if that ever happens -- yes.

So probably with Gnome 3.0 in a few years ;)
Renaming it now would be insane with all the rdeps, right :)
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