What are the *_stub packages for?

0	Some packages are named foo_stub. Are these packages different from other ones in any way? packages asked Feb 18 '12 at 17:05 automaciej ♦♦ 96●25●29●36

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They aren't different in any technical way. The *_stub naming is just a convention to indicate that it's a transitional, empty package.

The *_stub packages are side effects of things like package renaming and package splitting. For example, CSWzlib has been split to CSWlibz1 (catalogname: libz1, the package contains the libz.so.1 shared library) and CSWlibz-dev (libz_dev). However, some packages still declare a dependency on CSWzlib, so the stub package CSWzlib still exists, but its catalog name is now zlib_stub.

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answered Feb 21 '12 at 09:31

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edited Feb 21 '12 at 09:33

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