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Bug#349519: marked as done (libxpm-dev should Provide (or be renamed to) libxpm4-dev)

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Package: libxaw7-dev, libxaw8-dev, libxpm-dev
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: minor

Hello,

For some reason the libxpm4-dev virtual package is Provided by
libxaw7-dev and libxaw8-dev, not by the libxpm-dev package as one would
expect.  (Indeed, one would expect libxpm4-dev to be the real package
and libxpm-dev to be the virtual package, not vice versa!  I suppose
that would be much more difficult to transition correctly to though.)

I asked why this strange state of affairs was the case at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/01/msg00584.html
but did not receive any answer, so am filing this bug.  Even if
there is a good reason for this, it ought to be documented somewhere
(maybe in the relevant package descriptions) since it causes unexpected
behavior for people who put libxpm4-dev in their Build-Depends.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libxaw7-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]      2.3.5-12       GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii  libice-dev                6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library deve
ii  libsm-dev                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-dev                6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext-dev               6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu-dev                6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxp-dev                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
ii  libxpm-dev                6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library development files
ii  libxt-dev                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics development f
ii  x-dev                     6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X protocol development files

libxaw7-dev recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
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--- Begin Message --- 
Kevin wrote:
> For some reason the libxpm4-dev virtual package is Provided by
> libxaw7-dev and libxaw8-dev, not by the libxpm-dev package as one would
> expect.

At the moment libxaw8-dev is no longer built, libxaw7-dev provides no
package, libxpm-dev or otherwise, and libxpm-dev follows the normal
development library naming scheme, containing no sonumber while
depending on the soname'd runtime library package libxpm4.

So everything seems correct to me and I am therefore closing this bug.

If you disagree and believe the bug still exists, please reopen.

Drew

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