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Bug#738616: removing newer libasio-dev (v1.10) from unstable



On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:44:30 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:

> Package: release.debian.org
> 
> We would like the version of libasio-dev in unstable to revert to the
> version currently in testing (1.4.8-2)
> 
You might want to explain why.

> Can you please remove the v1.10.1-1 libasio-dev from unstable or let me
> know what action to take, e.g. should I upload a 1.4.8-3 package?
> 
No, we can't do that.  And you shouldn't do that.  What you can do is
use an epoch to make the version number go backwards.

> Also, could you please comment on whether we should plan a transition
> for asio 1.10 to enter jessie?  Markus is maintaining the package,
> reSIProcate is the only build dependency we know of and if there are no
> others then a formal transition probably isn't required.
> 
> Is there an equivalent of "apt-cache rdepends" that can help us locate
> any other packages with a build dependency on libasio-dev?  As it is a
> header library, no packages declare a runtime dependency on it.
> 
wget -qO- http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/source/Sources.gz | zcat | grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends -sPackage libasio-dev

Adjusting for contrib and non-free left as an exercise for the reader.

Cheers,
Julien

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