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On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:31:38 +0100
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we have the following in gnome.scm:
> $ guix package -A libwnck
> libwnck	2.30.7	out	gnu/packages/gnome.scm:1464:2
> libwnck	3.14.0	out	gnu/packages/gnome.scm:1435:2
> 
> However, the first one is internally assigned to the variable
> "libwnck-1". I assume that someone got inspired by another case where
> the "-1" is actually a version number. Is it okay if I rename it to
> "libwnck-2"?
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 

Hello,

the name libwnck-1 is right. The library files have this name and the
pkg-config file refers to that. This is because it uses Gtk+ 2.x and
has a different API than libwnck-3. I don't know why they chose this
versioning, but it's their decision.

Fabian