package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Matthias Clasen]

----- Original Message -----
> Dne 28.3.2013 12:09, Florian Festi napsal(a):
> > This is done to make life easier for package maintainers.
> 
> Sorry, you definitely not speak for me! This are just excuses. And I
> asked already several times to have some way to reliable support
> multiple version of packages without mangling their names.

gtk vs gtk2 vs gtk3 is not about multiple versions of a package, though. It is about multiple parallel installable branches. There are independent updates for gtk2 and for gtk3. I don't think you can really handle that within the same package name. Using a major version suffix for that is a well-established convention - I haven't seen any actual problem with this convention mentioned in this discussion so far.


Matthias