Re: Bug#137595: libusb-0.1-4: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.1.0', which is also in package libusb0
Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net> cum veritate scripsit:
> Why has libusb0 been removed from unstable? Is libusb-0.1-4
> inconsistent with libusb0? If the two libraries are inconsistent,
> then libusb0 should stay around.
libusb0 contained libusb-0.1-3 (libusb-0.1.so.3), and later the
contents of libusb-0.1-4 (libusb-0.1.so.4) was uploaded as
libusb0. Therefore, packages compiled against libusb0 was
randomly compiled against libusb-0.1.so.4/3 due to maintainer mistake.
To rectify such mistake in library packaging, a new package
which conflicts with old version needed to be created.
I really think libusb maintainer should have announced this
somewhere, and I am not a libusb maintainer.
crossposting to -devel.
I have read debian-bugs-dist enough to know that many people are
confused.
regards,
junichi
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