more virtual packages for providing libcuda.so.1 and libOpenCL.so.1 (was: Re: why is "src:glx-alternatives" in Ubuntu?)

Stefano Rivera stefanor at debian.org
Tue Jun 4 14:43:54 UTC 2013


Hi Andreas (2013.06.04_16:03:52_+0200)
> libcuda5 implies there would be libcuda.so.5 ...
> 
> I'd prefer the less ambiguous virtual package name of libcuda-5.0-1

Agreed.

Anything that's conceivably a real package name might have a versioned
dependency at some point. Virtual package names shouldn't have any
chance of clashing with real packages. And they should look obviously
virtual, to anyone who knows Debian library package naming.

SR

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