Re: apt-listchanges on changing soname
On 24.08.05 Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org) wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:17:40PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
> > > upon uploading the new teTeX 3.0 into unstable a new soname
> > > will be introduced (libkpathsea-dev -> libkpathsea4-dev). The
> > > control file of the new lib will make sure the upgrade will
> > > work. Question: will apt-listchanges upon upgrade be so clever
> > > to consider this to be an upgrade and display the changelog and
> > > NEWS.Debian of that libkpathsea4-dev?
> >
> > You should know that libkpathsea4-dev Provides: libkpathsea-dev
>
> If there is at least one binary package from the same source
> package which is installed and upgraded to a newer version, the
> changes will be displayed. apt-listchanges doesn't try to keep
> track of which packages are removed and guess whether they are
> being superseded by a package being newly installed.
>
Well, the scenario is:
old sources: tetex-bin
old packages: tetex-bin, libkpathsea-dev, libkpathsea3
new sources: tetex-bin
new packages: tetex-bin, libkpathsea4-dev, libkpathsea4
So I guess that should be OK.
Regards,
Hilmar
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