Any given debian release may contain one xerces-c package for each major version of xerces-c. It is expected that most releases will have only a single version of xerces-c since major releases are rare. The package "libxerces-c-dev" is always the development package for the latest major version. You may also use libxerces-cn-dev, where n is the major version, to get the development package for the specific major version. For example, libxerces-c3-dev would be the development packages for the latest 3.x release, and libxerces-c2-dev would be the development packages for the latest 2.x release. If your package uses on xerces-c, you should generally declare a build dependency on libxerces-c-dev. You should only use a specific version of the dev package if it is specifically known that your package will not work (yet) with a new version of xerces-c when it comes out. -- Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>, Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:58:45 -0400
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