Bug#738616: removing newer libasio-dev (v1.10) from unstable
On 11/02/14 13:44, Markus Wanner wrote:
> On 02/11/2014 01:40 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> Please try to avoid versioned -dev packages. Unless you really really
>> have to keep both versions around for years.
> Why is that? Keep in mind this is a headers-only library, i.e. it only
> ever ships with a -dev (and a -doc) package. There's no other way
> multiple versions of this library can be installed on a system.
>
Julien, Fedora and EPEL6 still have 1.4.8 as well. We don't know how
widely it is used in things that are not packaged (e.g. in private code
that people run on Debian)
If we release a versions libasio1.4-dev package and libasio1.10-dev
concurrently in jessie it will mean people can transition more slowly
but nothing will really break
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