On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 13:37:19 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 08:36, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 02:26:11 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > > So AIUI Sylvestre needs to remove that symlink in a new upload, but > > > all reverse-deps must be NMUd to use the new, versioned library name > > > e.g. libclang-3.5.so.1. Except I think the package name needs to be > > > changed in order to do that, so perhaps a soname bump to > > > libclang-3.5.so.2 provided by libclang2-3.5? > > > > > I don't think the package name and SONAME changes are necessary; > > libclang-3.5.so.1 is unambiguous, and libclang1-3.5 is not in wheezy. > > Doxygen in sid/jessie has a dependency on libclang1-3.5 but still looks > for libclang.so.1, which was once shipped by that package. > > That's why I thought the package name must change, to make sure > all incidents of this are cleaned up, and any package with dependency > on libclang1-3.5 (possibly broken) transitioned to something like > libclang2-3.5 (only shipping a libclang-3.5.so.2 and not libclang.so.1). > The breakage already happened, changing package names yet again is not going to make in un-happen. Cheers, Julien
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