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Re: replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev



On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:41:43PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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.

Now that I got a wishlist bug about bumping to libreadline6-dev |
libreadline-dev, I would really like to hear something about the above
concern.

Mike


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