Bug#185014: cdebconf mangles strings with consecutive spaces

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:51:49PM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote:
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> I think it's quite reasonable to have a libdebconf1-dev for the
> libdebconf1 package (which is still needed, no matter whether
> you've got debconf or cdebconf installed).
> 
> Perhaps it's an idea to split libdebconf in libdebconfclient and
> libcdebconf? (note the c, since that package would only be used together
> with cdebconf, to write frontends perhaps).

You got it here, split libdebconf in libdebconfclient(-dev) and libcdebconf,
then you will realize that libcdebconf is only needed by cdebconf and can be
dropped (the package, not the library) as well as libcdebconf-dev.
Then API changes will seldom occur.

Denis