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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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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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