[PD-dev] Debian packaging: multi-object/single-file libraries or single-object/multiple-files libraries?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> I'm new to Debian and to linux, and have two noob questions:
> 1. If package A has an abstraction that depends on an object from
> package B, is package B automatically installed when I install package
> A?

If the package has the correct Depends: set, then yes.  For binary  
libraries, there are tools to do it.  For abstractions, its a manual  
process, but I suppose we could script it.

> 2. If package A has a help patch that uses an object from package
> B, is package B automatically installed when I install package A?

Same as above.

.hc

>
> -Jonathan
>
> --- On Thu, 11/11/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Debian packaging: multi-object/single-file  
>> libraries or single-object/multiple-files libraries?
>> To: "Roman Haefeli" <reduzent at gmail.com>
>> Cc: pd-dev at iem.at
>> Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 10:30 PM
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 14:52 -0500, Hans-Christoph
>> Steiner wrote:
>>>> I'm fine with whatever you want to do with
>> iemmatrix.  I haven't used
>>>> it, so I don't really have much input on it.
>>>
>>> So I feel there is consensus about packaging iemmatrix
>> (only) as a
>>> multi-object library.
>>
>> I'd put it this way: I'm don't like ever packaging libs
>> that way, but I don't use iemmatrix, so I won't stop you.
>> :)
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>>> As for other libraries without aliases or
>> hexloader needs (which is
>>>> most), I see no reason why the Debian package
>> should not be built with
>>>> single_object.pd_linux.  With the libdir
>> loader, it'll behave just
>>>> like a multi-object.pd_linux library, and have the
>> added bonus of
>>>> working namespace prefixes.
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> Roman
>>>
>>>
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