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Re: apt-listchanges on changing soname



Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:33:44PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>> On 24.08.05 Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org) wrote:
>> > 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 being superseded by a package being newly installed.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.
>
> If tetex-bin is installed and upgraded, yes, that will work.

I guess most developers of packages that link against libkpathsea will
use TeX to some extent, and thus have tetex-bin installed.  If only to
get the tools for command-line queries to libkpathsea...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



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