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Re: Transition sane-backends



On 8/25/18 5:14 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> It's not really a patch. It is:
> 
> diff -pruN 1.0.27-1~experimental6/debian/control
> 1.0.27-1~experimental6ubuntu2/debian/control
> --- 1.0.27-1~experimental6/debian/control    2018-07-08 12:00:41.000000000 +0000
> +++ 1.0.27-1~experimental6ubuntu2/debian/control    2018-08-10
> 06:43:32.000000000 +0000
> @@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ Package: libsane1
>  Section: libs
>  Architecture: any
>  Multi-Arch: same
> -Breaks: libsane (<<1.0.27-1)
> -Replaces: libsane (<<1.0.27-1)
> -Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
> +Conflicts: libsane (<< 1.0.27-1~)
> +Replaces: libsane (<< 1.0.27-1~)
> +Provides: libsane (= ${binary:Version})

Of course that's a patch. Why do you think it starts with "diff"?

It's just not a Debian patch which patches the upstream software but
I never implied that.

>> Overall, Joerg has invested a lot of time and effort to fix the
>> missing SO version in the package name and most other people we
>> have discussed this with in Debian agreed with this change.
> 
> I question that statement. I have tried proposing that change multiple
> times to Jörg but I haven't really even gotten a response from him
> about it. I believe there are other Ubuntu developers who agree with
> the Ubuntu modification and some of them are active in Debian as well.

I don't think this was intentional from Joerg's side. He was mainly
concentrated on fixing other issues first and the accidental upload
came from my side because I forgot this day that sbuild is ignoring
the distribution from the changelog entry. So the package landed
in unstable too early.

> Renaming the soname without a Provides is a problem because I
> understand there are lots of third-party .deb packages which would no
> longer work in Debian until those third-parties update their binary
> packages. And it's not clear requiring that third-party work would be
> helpful here.

I don't disagree with that.

Joerg, can you go ahead and make the suggested changes so we can start
the transition?

Thanks,
Adrian

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