ITP: libtool-devel, libtool-stable, libtool (wrappers)

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sun Jan 13 10:12:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:14:24PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Didn't I already vote on this?  I can't remember.
>>
>>I say "just do it", too.
>
>I'm waiting for resolution/consensus on the '-' vs. '_' issue...if we 
>*are* going to rename auto*-[stable|devel] to auto*_[stable|devel], I 
>don't want to have to rename the libtool packages too.  I want them 
>named "correctly" from the beginning.

I thought that the consensus (i.e., Robert and me) was that '_' shouldn't
be special.

I don't see any reason to rename libtool-devel to libtool_devel, though.
It is only a problem when there is a number involved after the dash.
There are other packages which use dashes in their names.

cgf



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