On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 04:50:20PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> At https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/gnutls28
> are the packages 'gnutls30' and 'gnutls28-dev'.
>
> And missing to me are the packages 'gnutls28' and 'gnutls30-dev'
Just historical cruft if you ask me.
> But are they truely missing? In other words:
> Why is there no 'gnutls28'? (There is a 'gnutls28-dev' )
There used to be, simply the SONAME changed over time from 28 to 30
(back in 2015).
> Why is there a 'gnutls30' whitout a 'gnutls30-dev'?
Because renaming -dev packages is hard. If I were the maintainer I
would make the effort to rename it to gnutls-dev without the number (and
there is a Provides in place already, so you could just go with that).
Back in the time versioned -dev packages were considered ok, nowadays
they are discouraged.
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