Re: Changes in t1lib.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:04:18AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:57:32PM +0100, Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
> > These arguments are good, but...
> >
> > All packages which use this library depend on t1lib1. Of course, I can
> > provide dummy t1lib1 package which depends on libt1-1 but I do not like
> > this idea.
>
> I strongly urge you to overcome that dislike. IMO a package should
> never disappear across a Debian release unless the functionality has
> gone missing.
Agreed, so why rename it at all? (ie why t1lib -> libt1 if the dummy
package is always going to be required anyway).
> What's wrong with libt1-dev? Do you expect to have to support
> development against multiple versions of t1lib?
Apparently so.
Hamish
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