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Re: libpoppler backport



Christoph Berg wrote:
>> If a library is not part of stable, the library packages names should
>> not be altered, so other backports don't need to have backport-specific
>> Build-Depends with respect to that very library.
> 
> That's why we have -dev packages and shlibs files. There is no need to
> change the build-depends even if the lib package is renamed.

Are you saying, that a package build-depending on libfooc2a in sid can
map this build-dependency to libfoo inside a sarge chroot?

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