[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#595613: Bug#595613: emboss-lib: improper shared library packaging

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Sep  5, 2010 at 20:47:12 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:

> eplplot is not to be used by any other package than emboss and the embassy-*
> packages. I would prefer it to be kept separate from the ajax and nucleus
> libraries, because it is a part that I hope can be removed in the future (but
> it may take years).
> 
> I have no intention to support more than one release of EMBOSS at the same
> time; I do not think that the above section of the Policy applies to the
> emboss-lib package. In particular, the ‘eplplot’ fork of the plplot library is
> not intended for use by any other software than the EMBOSS and the EMBASSY
> suites, which are distributed by the same upstream developers.
> 
Why does any of this prevent the existence of a libeplplot3 binary
package?  For most libraries, we're not shipping more than one version
at a time in each suite, but their packaging has to follow policy
regardless.  One of the concerns is to make upgrades work, and that
applies to emboss just like to every other package in Debian.

Cheers,
Julien
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