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Re: Bug#763619: libmeanwhile-dev: package long description refers to old library package name



Control: reassign -1 libmeanwhile-dev 1.0.2-5

On Mi, 01 oct 14, 08:38:34, The Wanderer wrote:
> Source: libmeanwhile-dev
> Version: 1.0.2-5
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The long description of libmeanwhile-dev states that the package
> "contains development files of the libmeanwhile0 library.". However, the
> package itself now Depends: on libmeanwhile1, and libmeanwhile0 appears
> to no longer exist.
> 
> It is more common for -dev packages to simply state that the package
> contains the development files, without specifying any particular
> package name or version, which is already implicitly indicated by the
> package dependencies. This mismatch is probably an example of one of the
> reasons why.
> 
> Please address this discrepancy, either by removing the package-name
> reference, or by updating it to refer to the currently live package
> name.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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