[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#603584: Bug#603584: There should be a symlink libxml-2.0.pc --> libxml.pc

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:45:51PM +0100, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
> > That is a policy for mono/.net/CLI.
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> Mike, I think this is nice policy to be applied as well beyond CLI/.NET.
> Otherwise the consumer need to know the version, as for example:
> 
> # pkg-config --static --libs libxml-2.0
> 
> The rule is applied for libpng package, see
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libpng12-dev/filelist
> 
> Usually .pc file does not include version information at all.

Except libxml2 is not libxml, libxml exist(ed), and some (old) software
build against libxml. Which means they would fail to build with such a
symlink, and vice versa if libxml2-using software were built using
libxml.pc from libxml.

IOW, there are good reasons this policy can't be applied everywhere, and
a good reason for this policy not to be applied on libxml2

Mike