[ITP] ploticus, libploticus, ploticus-common, ploticus-doc (revised)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:02:12PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> > You're only providing a static libploticus.a.  Doesn't ploticus also
>> > support building and linking against a shared lib?
>> 
>> If only a static lib is supplied, it should probably go into a package 
>> called "libploticus-devel" (along with the necessary header files), and 
>> not "libploticus".
>> 
>> This is because the static library (and .la libtool libs, and .dll.a 
>> import libs) are only needed if developing a client application.  They 
>> are not needed at runtime.
>> 
>> On the other hand, .dll files which are needed at runtime usually go 
>> into packages named "lib{foo}" or "lib{foo}N".
>
>Maybe you're right.  I don't have much experience with library packages and so
>overlooked this.  Do others agree?

Yes.  static libraries belong in a -devel package.

cgf