[Mageia-dev] Generic 64-bit building question

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:

>> That's why there was discussion started, some time ago, in this list, to
>> create devel packages so that they will provide %{name}-devel and
>> lib%{name}-deve.
>>
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel/6365
>
> It isn't clear to me whether the situation to be fixed is Mageia-specific or the inconsistency shows up also in Fedora, openSUSE, etc.
> I thought it was about a small number of some peculiar libs, but it looks like it's a more generic issue.
>
>>>  Moreover, excuse me, but I find it stupid to have a 64-bit lib called
>> `libksane-devel`.
>> This is devel package, not library itself, so it's OK.

> I must admit I failed to understand your statement.
>
> What's the difference between:
> `libksane-devel` <<-- correct 64-bit name
> and
> `lib64djvulibre-devel` <<-- correct 64-bit name
> ?
>
> Why not `lib64ksane-devel` ?

You are right, the package name libksane-devel is incorrect. See 
http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=libraries


     Christiaan