Bug#969291: RFS: sane-backends/1.0.31-1~experimental1 [RC] -- API library for scanners [transitional package]

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hello,

> 
> The change from libsane to libsane1 requires IMHO a transition. Therefore only
> in experimental. 
> 
> > I saw you switched from "libsane" to "libsane1". This was not really
> > warranted, the lintian warning that you fixed with this rename
> > was harmless and you should consider the cost to update all the
> > reverse build dependencies (and there are quite a few). However
> > now that you have added the transitional package and that you are
> > already gone through NEW, I guess it's ok to push this to completion.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

We will have for some while, both libsane1 and libsane transitional package.
Rebuilding the reverse-dependencies will make libsane go away faster, but there is
no real need to rebuild anything right now, because both dependencies will be satisfied.

So, since the ABI seems to have not changed, this is not a "transition" but more a
"lets rebuild reverse dependencies so the transitional package can go away faster"

But in any case, reverse-dependencies are likely to have some unrelated upload in the next months,
so rebuilding them now might be unnecessary (for sure it isn't necessary for testing migration).

FWIW in Ubuntu I did the rebuilds :)

Gianfranco