Re: hurd-libfuse_0.0.20140820-1_hurd-i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental, experimental

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 16:00:09 +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
> Accepted:
> 
> Format: 1.8
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:18:32 +0200
> Source: hurd-libfuse
> Binary: libfuse-hurd-dev libfuse-hurd1 libfuse-hurd-dbg libfuse-dev
> Architecture: source hurd-i386
> Version: 0.0.20140820-1
> Distribution: experimental
> Urgency: medium
> Maintainer: GNU Hurd Maintainers <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
> Changed-By: Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
> Description:
>  libfuse-dev - Hurd-based FUSE API library - migration header
>  […]
> Changes:
>  hurd-libfuse (0.0.20140820-1) experimental; urgency=medium
>  .
>    * New upstream snapshot.
>    […]
>    * Add a real libfuse-dev, whose version is based on the FUSE API it
>      implements (taken from the pkg-config file), which depends on
>      libfuse-hurd-dev. This allows libfuse-hurd-dev to satisfy versioned
>      libfuse-dev (build-)dependencies.

Unfortunately this is not a very good idea, because it will cause many
problems in the Debian infrastructure, which is not prepared to handle
such cases. Confusion with bug reports against the binary package
(AFAIR debbugs sends copies to all source maintainers), confusion in
the PTS, packages.debian.org and similar sites, etc. I don't remember
offhand what else broke when we did something similar in the
kfreebsd-ports with several compatibility packages, which now they
are namespaced.

Thanks,
Guillem