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Bug#719207: RFS: mosquitto/1.2-1



 ❦ 20 août 2013 23:28 CEST, Roger Light <roger@atchoo.org> :

>>  - debian/control: the dependency of libmosquitto-dev is quite odd. Why
>>    not (= ${binary:Version})? I understand that you avoid to upgrade the
>>    binary package if there is only packaging changes, but sometimes,
>>    packaging changes contain patches or other things that could impact
>>    the compatibility. Maybe this is OK, but I think this is quite
>>    unusual. I would prefer that you use (= ${binary:Version}).
>
> The reason for the odd dependency is because the -dev packages are in
> arch-all. If you use (= ${binary:Version}) then the lintian error
> not-binnmuable-all-depends-any occurs:
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/not-binnmuable-all-depends-any.html
>
> I could change it to just depend on (>= ${source:Version}) if you
> think that would be more appropriate.

OK, keep it as is. I now understand the purpose.

> I've made the changes you suggest, excluding the lib dependency
> changes, and uploaded to mentors again.

Uploaded.
-- 
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