sofia-sip packaging considerations

George Danchev danchev at spnet.net
Thu Jun 15 12:14:23 UTC 2006


Hello team, 

	I have some things I'd like to discuss about sofia-sip packaging, not 
critical though, but a question of 'best practises' ;-) I'd like to name the 
package right, rather that fixing that subsequently after hitting Sid.

	1) -bin package - I have a binary package sofia-sip which content binary 
executable suitable for development and test purposes. I think it best to be 
named sofia-sip-bin, what do you think ?

	2) lib* and *-dev packages - having a look at libpkg-guide [1] to consult of 
how to name these packages according to the SONAME I grabbed the scripts 
listed there...  Running that over the shared object 
libsofia-sip-ua.so.0.0.0, suggested package names are:
libsofia-sip-ua0
libsofia-sip-ua0-dev

	Since dpkg claims that the versions having 0 and not having 0 are equal [2] I 
think it is best to leave these packages names as:
libsofia-sip-ua
libsofia-sip-ua-dev

	When the SONAME get bumped, we will adjust these names accordingly. 

Any worries doing so ? Thanks.

[1] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html
[2]  $ dpkg --compare-versions libsofia-sip-ua0 eq libsofia-sip-ua
	$ echo $?
	0
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