[csw-maintainers] commentary on shared library naming proposal

[Peter Bonivart]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> Seems like it's this sort of reason why debian, and pretty much any
> other distro on the planet, only has a single "libcups" package,
> rather than 6 separate ones for each of the shared libs in there.

But how can it hurt if the maintainer chose to split up the libs? I
understand that, the opposite, keeping multiple libs in one package
can sometimes be a problem and cause for rejection but how is this a
real problem?

/peter