[clug] apt naming convention

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 06:14:13PM +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
>>> Some others make sense to me like postfix-mysql and postfix-ldap,
>>> apf-client and apf-server, but in general the naming convention seems
>>> strange to me. There is apache-common, apache2-common and
>>> apache2.2-common
>>> and I'm confused.

>> That one's easy. Those're the common files for Apache 1.3, Apache 2.0
>> and Apache 2.2.
> Yeah, I guessed they were different versions but just plucked it out as an
> example of there being so many.

>> They basically provide a package modules can depend on to say "I
>> implement this ABI". This allows apt to hold back upgrading your
>> apache from 2.0 to 2.2 until all the modules you have installed
>> can upgrade simultaneously, preventing partial-upgrade breakages.
> I see.. so that means a full 2.2 is on the way then, at some stage..
> although the repository is frozen, maybe.

Etch already has Apace 2.2.3, happily.

>> Sorry for the length of reply, I've had my head buried in Debian
>> RC-bug hunting all evening.
> No, thanks I appreciate it. I'm used to a Gentoo world where we don't have
> this kind of issue because I can specify any version I want and it's
> always the same package name (and then USE flags let me build in support
> for whatever I want, such as mysql or ldap etc), but I'm getting there :)

Yes, as far as package management goes, the strictures of dpkg and
expectations to do things "right" make dpkg a unique and beautiful
snowflake compared to things like ports, portage and rpm. ^_^

(Not that the others don't do things right, they just don't do them
"Debian right". ^_^)

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