Can someone please explain to me why all of the gnustep -dev packages need to have the upstream version number in their names? The new and old -dev packages don't seem to be API-incompatible; I've just NMUed one package that was left uninstallable in unstable, and all it took to rebuild it was to change the build-dependencies. Yet there are literally dozens of packages that have been left unbuildable for over a month since the new upstream version of gnustep was uploaded, with no sign of activity. Are there really differences in the new version that warrant forcing sourceful changes in all of the reverse-dependencies? If not, I'm inclined to NMU gnustep-base and gnustep-gui to Provide: the old names of these -dev packages and schedule binNMUs for the affected packages, so that this gnustep transition doesn't continue to drag on. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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