Colin, am Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:02:22AM +0000 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > OK, what kind of timeline are we talking about? Luk said "not yet" a > few days ago, although I wasn't clear what he was waiting for (not that > I minded, I don't need to know the fine details). I try to gather information about this transition now and will look into handling it as soon as it's possible to do so. That's why I'm asking questions now. :-) > > So with 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 theoretically every source package could > > switch its build-dep to libparted-dev already? Or are those supposed to > > use the precise version as they do now? (I.e. in the current state they > > are not binNMU-able.) > If the release team prefers that, I don't mind as such - but note that > it's quite likely that several of these source packages will want to use > API introduced more recently than 1.8.8 (the alignment handling > functions), so just "libparted-dev" seems a little too imprecise really? I later saw that libparted-dev was virtual and thus the versioned dependency thing doesn't work out too well, but may you enlighten me why that is the case? I.e. why libparted-dev is virtual and the real instance being named after the SONAME instead of the API version? ;-) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
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