Bug#462349: libcroco3 contains a binary

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sat Feb 16 19:09:52 UTC 2008


On jeu, 2008-01-24 at 16:37 +1300, Sean Neakums wrote:
> Package: libcroco3
> Version: 0.6.1-1
> 
> This package contains a binary, "csslint-0.6".  According to the
> Debian Policy, section 8.2, this should not be the case.

Indeed, but this binary is versioned; if the library changes its SONAME,
the binary will change its name at the same time. This policy
requirement is here to allow installation of several versions of a
library on the system, and I don’t think this will break.

Cheers,
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