Hi Mark, On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:41:58 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 04:01:13PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > First point is the name of the library. My original intent was to name > > it libi2c-dev, because the library is essentially a front-end to the > > i2c-dev kernel driver, and also because this is what Debian named their > > package currently containing the (i2c-tools flavor of) > > <linux/i2c-dev.h>. However Aur??lien Jarno suggested that libi2c would > > be just as fine, and easier/shorter. I am mostly convinced by now. I am > > curious if anyone wants to express an opinion on the matter? > > FWIW the Debian convention is that the source package of a library is > called libfoo building packages libfoo-dev with the headers and .so > symlink to link against (or .a for a static library) and libfooN with > the runtime in it (where N is the soname). Oh, OK, so I completely misinterpreted the -dev. I am used to -devel for development packages (openSUSE) so the connection did not happen in my brain. Of course it makes sense now. So I guess I'll name the library libi2c. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
