Re: How to prevent a library transition
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:53:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Wouldn't it be possible to do the following: teTeX-3.0 is uploaded to
> unstable, including the libkpathsea4 and libkpathsea4-dev packages (it
> uses the library itself), but at the same time libkpathsea3 and
> libkpathsea-dev are still available as oldlibs, AND libkpathsea4-dev
> does *not* provide libkpathsea-dev.
You may want to warn the maintainers of your reverse dependencies that
they should not upload packages build-depending on libkpathsea4-dev,
then. I imagine not everyone reads -devel, and otherwise you'll have a
library transition on your hands anyway.
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