Re: JPEG 8 transition

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 04:09:18PM +0100, sean finney wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > The first step is to fix packages that Depend on 'libjpeg62-dev'.  They should
> > Depend on 'libjpeg-dev' instead. Please do not make them Depend on
> > 'libjpeg8-dev', or 'libjpeg-dev|libjpeg62-dev' or 'libjpeg-dev|libjpeg8-dev' or
> > other combinaisons since this is useless and can only cause problem is the
> > future.
> 
> what about people wanting to support lenny backports?  afaict libjpeg-dev
> is a virtual package in lenny, and thus we'd need libjpeg-dev|libjpeg62-dev.

In lenny, libjpeg62-dev provides libjpeg-dev so (Build-)Depending: libjpeg-dev.
work fine. Just looks at the number of lenny packages that do that.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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