Bug#568374: debian-policy: section "8.4 Development files" not explicit enough regarding libraryname[soversion]-dev
Hi,
I suggest to change
| 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 only to support one development version at a time,
| libraryname-dev.
to
| If there are development files associated with a shared
| library, the source package needs to generate a binary
| development package named libraryname-dev, or if you
| need to support multiple development versions at a time,
| librarynameAPIVERSION-dev.
The changes are:
Recommend unversioned -dev packages over versioned ones.
For versioned -dev packages, use APIVERSION instead of SONAMEVERSION as
API and ABI can change independently. This matches current practice: as
a random example: libgweather-3-dev + libgweather-3-6
Ansgar
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