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On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 10:11 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 16:13 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> > This class is for packages that do not work with debian library naming
> 
> I tend to feel that most of those packages should be fixed so that they
> do.  If they aren't currently getting renamed then it usually means that
> they include too much (i.e. both binaries and libraries, or multiple
> libraries) and should be split up so that this doesn't happen.

Actually, looking at the patch more carefully I guess this does
basically address the first case above (binaries and libraries).  But it
looks like it will result in the slightly confusing situation where the
libraries go into lib${PN} but the corresponding headers are in
${PN}-dev.

p.