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Re: [ITA] jasper: JPEG 2000 library
On Apr 1 13:18, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>
> > On Apr 1 00:25, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I would like to adopt and maintain the 'jasper' package from Gerrit P.Haase and
> >> split it into 'jasper/libjasper17011/libjasper-devel' packages.
>
> > Huh? libjasper*17011*? Did we have so many versions of libjasper already? ;)
> > Just out of curiosity, what does this big number mean here?
>
> Actually I forgot to ask on the list before packaging. But it's not too
> late. I can still repackage if we sort it out.
>
> The actual source package is jasper-1.701.0.zip. The cygwin release will
> be revision 2.
>
> libtool for jasper-1.701.0 creates cygjasper-1-701-1.dll
>
> So how should we name the corresponding library package:
>
> libjasper1_107_1-1.701.0-2.tar.bz2
> libjasper1_107.1-1.701.0-2.tar.bz2
> libjasper1.107.1-1.701.0-2.tar.bz2
>
>
>
> libtool for jasper-1.900.1 creates cygjasper-1.dll
>
> In this case we have libjasper1-1.900.1-1.tar.bz2
Given that the name of the package doesn't have to reflect the exact
version number/version name of the DLL, wouldn't it be easier for the
future to recognize the older version if the package is named
libjasper0-$version?
Corinna
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