[Pkg-kde-extras] Re: kipi/kexif libstdc++ transition

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:59:51AM +0100, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> > > P.S. With the next API aka soname change I also ponder if
> > > this will be libXXX<soname+1>-dev as suggested in the library
> > > pkging guide or libXXX-dev as favored by most(?) DDs.
> > 
> > It's really up to us whatever we want and think is a good thing.
> 
> Yeah.  More googling and reading necessary on my part necessary.
> Personally I fail to see yet why libXXX-dev is 'better'.  But
> when verlon and ftp-masters favour it, there must strong argument
> for it. (Well, ftp-master may be biased because libXXX-dev creates
> less NEW traffic ;)

I think because packages then always build against the latest version
of the library, without having to change the build-deps explicitly.
Which is nice if you can get away with it.

Jonathan