Some packages are named foo_stub. Are these packages different from other ones in any way?
asked: 2012-02-18 by: automaciej
automaciej answers:
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.