Re: Package name

[Shachar Shemesh <debian@shemesh.biz>]

Steve Langasek wrote:

> The risk is that you can't install the new -dev package on a system that has
> the old lib installed, because they conflict.  One normally wants to be able
> to build and test binaries for a new library *before* purging the old
> version of the library...
>  
But the -dev package always depends on the non-dev of the exact same 
version. This means I cannot install the new version without upgrading 
the library itself anyways.

What am I missing here?

         Shachar

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