Re: replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:21:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13 2009, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
> > Both libreadline-dev (>= 6.0) and libreadline6-dev are now available
> > in unstable and testing. If possible, please replace the
> > libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev, so that in
> > future changes of the libreadline soname binNMU's can be used for this
> > kind of update.
>
> I had libreadline5-dev | libreadline-dev, based on the premise
> that the former would be a concrete package, and the latter not, but I
> am now using
> libreadline-dev | libreadline6-dev | libreadline5-dev
> to be friendly to back porters (thus the prepend, not replace)
librealine-dev used to be a virtual package. If it is now a standard
package, I don't even see why libreadline6-dev exists at all.
Mike
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