[csw-maintainers] When a shared library needs a data file

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Tue Jan 18 21:43:02 CET 2011


Hi Phil,

Am 18.01.2011 um 20:56 schrieb Philip Brown:
>> I'm not convinced whether it's better to provide magic.mgc in an
>> isolated file.  We would still need a package for
>> /opt/csw/share/man/man3/libmagic.3 and
>> /opt/csw/share/man/man4/magic.4.  It should be neither CSWgfile, nor
>> CSWlibmagic (deprecated), nor CSWlibmagic1 (libmagic.so.1 only), nor
>> CSWlibmagic-magic (magic.mgc only).
> 
> I think we have a fairly clear existing "standard" on that already.
> libmagic_doc

IIRC it is different. section 3 stuff goes into *-dev and
section 4 stuff should be in the packages with the containing
files *unless* we have a documentation package which should
only be made if the documentation is really large (like qt).


Best regards

  -- Dago





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