[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#557495: [treinen at free.fr: Bug#557495: libtowitoko-dev and libctapimkt0-dev: error when trying to install together]

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:41:24PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> I would like to remember those people involved in the programs /
> packaging that I need some hint to find a reasonable solution.  Is there
> any chance that one of the authors might find a different name to
> prevent a name clash?  The (not so good) alternative would be to
> move the header files to a subdirectory of /usr/include.  So please
> raise your voice to this problem if you want to see your package in
> the next Debian release.

I'm unsure what would be the best solution here. CTAPI is highly
unlikely to change, so the approach taken by upstream authors to simply
ship a definition in-tree is not all that bad. The alternative would be
creating a package "ctapi-dev" that contains a single header file, and
using that.

   Simon