Bug#813100: transition: libopenobex
On 04/02/16 18:18, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:48:32PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 30/01/16 01:18, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>>> Hi, Andreas.
>>>
>>> Thanks for this mail and work!
>>> I was just thinking the migration of this broken library.
>>
>> Unfortunately the versioned -dev package means every rdep needs a sourceful
>> upload to build against the new version. It'd be good to switch to an
>> unversioned -dev...
>
> umh, actually, there is a 'Provides: libopenobex-dev', shouldn't be that
> enough for this?
Yes. Though as you say...
> From what I can see no rdep use the unversioned virtual package, but
> this could be a good occasion to have them switch to it?
Packages still need sourceful uploads, and unless it is pointed to them, I bet
they will switch to libopenobex2-dev, requiring yet another change when the
SONAME changes again. So it'd be good to explicitly mention the unversioned
libopenobex-dev build-dependency.
Cheers,
Emilio
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