Re: transition: libcurl3 -> libcurl4

[Domenico Andreoli <cavok@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:47:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:41:10PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> 
> > > > so it would be:
> 
> > > > libcurl4-dev           provide: libcurl-dev
> > > > libcurl4-openssl-dev   provide: libcurl-dev, libcurl-ssl-dev, libcurl3-openssl-dev
> > > > libcurl4-gnutls-dev    provide: libcurl-dev, libcurl-ssl-dev, libcurl3-gnutls-dev
> 
> > > > libcurl-dev and libcurl-ssl-dev are already in place since the
> > > > non-ssl/ssl scission, long time ago.
> 
> > > > my intention is to add also a non-ssl libcurl flavour with
> > > > libcurl4-dev.  libcurl3-dev has been a transition package to install
> > > > libcurl3-openssl-dev. hence those depending on libcurl3-dev instead of
> > > > libcurl3-openssl would have a bug.
> 
> > > That's incredibly lame, given that libcurl3-dev is what most packages
> > > build-depend on (62 out of 73, according to 'dak rm').  My entire point was
> > > that you shouldn't break your library's reverse-dependencies without reason!
> 
> > libcurl4-openssl-dev should provide also libcurl3-dev, ok?
> 
> That sounds good, thanks.

it looks like you would push some binNMUs to accelerate the transition,
doesn't it? may i upload to unstable?

regards
domenico

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