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Re: Bug#712688: transition: gdal



On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 04:27:41PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> BTW, without annoying all of you with a so looooooong history about 
> this issue, I'm going to introduce a new libgdal1h binary package (h means hidden, better 
> suggestions are welcome :)), with a new SONAME libgdal.1h to manage a decent migration
> to the new flavor. This will sacrifice third-parties sw compatibility, but
> well, who cares? It would be break anyway.
> 

Maybe a better choice in this specific case would be introducing a new
binary package (libgdal1h) that Conflicts/Breaks against libgdal1 and provides 
the usual library with the usual name/soname. Of course, that will force a lot of bNMUs 
and an explicit unblocking set to complete the transition properly. Make sense?

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine


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