should libcantorlibs really be a public library

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dijous, 12 de març de 2015, a les 14:45:39, Filipe Saraiva va escriure:
> On 12-03-2015 10:36, Harald Sitter wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >> El Dimarts, 10 de març de 2015, a les 16:15:48, Harald Sitter va 
escriure:
> >>> Ahoy,
> >>> 
> >>> I am looking at the debian packaging of cantor right now and noticed
> >>> that it doesn't actually package the headers, nor the .so symlink  of
> >>> libcantorlibs.
> >>> 
> >>> It makes me wonder whether the library really should be public at all?
> >> 
> >> It's a chicken egg problem, no?
> >> 
> >> You won't users unless your library is installed and if you don't install
> >> the library because there's no users...
> > 
> > Sure. Hence my question. If it is public because it is believed to be
> > useful to the world, and getting proper public library treatment
> > (so-version management and what not), then Debian (I really care about
> > Kubuntu here :P) should package the development related files. Right
> > now they are not packaged but installed by cmake which seems like a
> > problem in either case.
> > 
> > HS
> 
> Hello Harald, in fact libcantor needs to be more "visible" for
> developers take advantage of that. It needs a proper documentation page,
> for example.
> 
> But you relate a Debian/Kubuntu packaging problem, not a Cantor problem.
> I am using Mageia and I can see a package named cantor-devel here.
> 
> I suggest to you open a bug report in Debian or Kubuntu bugzilla to
> relate it.

Or he can fix it himself since he's a Debian/Ubuntu packager :)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Thanks;