Re: Bug#507189: asterisk: Depends on libc-client2007b which is not in unstable

[Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>]

Adeodato Simó wrote:
> So, as for what to do, please do stop for squeeze bumping the SONAME
> (and changing the package name) on every new upstream version, and only
> do it whenever the ABI changes. It would be realy nice if you could do
> this. (There is also no reason to rename the -dev package, though since
> you provide a virtual package, it's not so grave.)
FWIW, depending on the virtual package libc-client-dev is not an option
for asterisk since:
a) libc-client-dev was a real package in etch,
b) the version in etch is not sufficient for asterisk to build (too old)
c) dpkg doesn't support versioned b-d on virtual packages
d) apt prefers real packages over virtual ones

and hence asterisk will FTBFS on systems that have etch in their
sources.list.

All of these would be solved if the -dev package would be renamed to
libc-client-dev again, as it was in etch.
The API doesn't change over versions, AFAIK.

See #458877 for more.

Regards,
Faidon