Cameron Hutchison <camh+dl@xdna.net> writes: > I notice that in the unstable distribution that libvorbis0 has become > libvorbis0a, and that libvorbis0a conflicts with libvorbis0. > > This is causing "apt-get dist-upgrade" to want to remove a lot of my > packages, packages that I'd rather keep. > > I gather this is to do with splitting libvorbisenc and libvorbisfile out > of libvorbis0, and that renaming libvorbis0 to libvorbis0a forces package > maintainers to update their dependencies to explicitly depend on > vorbisfile or vorbisenc if necessary. > > Is this the only reason for the renaming? I believe so. > If I had libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3 all installed, > would those packages that depend on libvorbis0 still technically work, > apart from the package dependencies? > > If this is true, could I create a meta-package, libvorbis0, that depends > on libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3? I would have to change > libvorbis0a so that it no longer conflicts with libvorbis0, but that's > easy to do from the source. > > So, what I'm planning to do is to "apt-get source libvorbis", update the > versions to 1.0.0-3.0.1, modify the control file so 0a does not conflict > or replace 0, add a libvorbis0 meta-package, build and install. > > Will this work? (well, I'm going to try it anyway, but any feedback > from the list would be useful). It sounds like it should. If it does, you should send your solution to the libvorbis maintainer, since the current situation is less than ideal. -- I had no feelings about it. It was aloof and licked itself too much. Like my cat Mr. Trotsky.
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