Bug#650601: transition: libpng 1.5
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 23:34:37 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> If the API has changed, as Nobuhiro states above, it would be
> incorrect for the new -dev package to provide the old, wouldn't it?
No. It would only be incorrect if the plan was to keep libpng12-dev
around as a real package. Since the source package name was not
changed, I assume that's not the case.
> Nor can the provides be temporary; it would have to last until all the
> build-depends were changed, wouldn't it?
>
That's what temporary means.
> Wouldn't it be better, instead, to leave both old and new -dev
> packages in the archive until all 123 dependent packages are fixed?
>
There are 400 reverse dependencies of libpng. I don't think source
changes to all of them (most just to switch a build-dependency) is a
good plan.
Cheers,
Julien
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