Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:14:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-02-10 17:03 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> > This is the list of packages that Depends on libjpeg62-dev *and* cause
> > conflicts when building package that build-depends on libjpeg-dev.
> >
> > libcupsimage2-dev
> > libdirectfb-dev
> > libdjvulibre-dev
> > libgd2-noxpm-dev
> > libgdal1-dev
> > libhdf5-serial-dev
> > libqt3-mt-dev
> > libsane-dev
> > libsdl-image1.2-dev
> > libtiff4-dev
> > libwmf-dev
> > libwraster3-dev
>
> Are these really the only ones?
Yes, however maybe they cannot be rebuild due to Conflict. I will check that
before reporting bugs.
> What about the 300+ packages that
> currently build-depend on libjpeg62-dev, could they safely switch to
> libjpeg-dev if the above packages were fixed?
No, there are other package Depending on libjpeg62-dev that have
rdepends.
> > I think they should be fixed to Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev and
> > Depends on libjpeg-dev|libjpeg62-dev, the '|libjpeg62-dev' being
> > necessary for building packages that Build-Depends on libjpeg62-dev.
>
> That sounds reasonable.
However, I am not quite sure the "|libjpeg62-dev' is a sane option.
Packages might end up being built against the wrong header files.
> > I do not disagree with the suggestion of libjpeg8-dev providing both
> > libjpeg-dev and libjpeg62-dev, thought I would still like to provide
> > libjpeg62-dev for people needing to build binary compatible with other linux
> > distributions, but the release manager were not in favour of this option.
>
> Actually, libjpeg62-dev is needed to build LSB compliant software that use
> libjpeg, so losing that would not be very nice.
Well, what I suggest:
I rename the current binary package libjpeg62-dev to libjpeg6b-dev and I change
libjpeg8-dev to provide libjpeg62-dev.
But then we are back to the transition the release managers tried to avoid.
Cheers,
Bill.
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