Re: Fixing -dev package names in libxcb

[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@canonical.com>]

Hi Julien,

The work is already done in this patch - do you see any ongoing issues?

Reasons I see for doing the renaming:

- It's confusing for users to work out the name of the -dev packages to install.

- It gives the incorrect impression you can install multiple -dev packages.

- It means each time a library bumps soname then someone has to do a part of this patch (e.g. as was done for libxcb-sync-dev). Or it gets forgotten. Or the soname is added to the -dev package requiring a migration and another the next time it happens.

- It confuses new packagers into thinking they need the soname in the -dev package.

--Robert

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:26 PM Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 04:14:36 +0000, Robert Ancell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to fix the -dev package names in libxcb - they currently have a
> version number on them which is not correct. The git branch for libxcb
> seems to be owned by collab-maint - should that be changed to pkg-xorg?
>
> I've attached a patch that fixes these package names, please let me know
> how to commit this to an appropriate branch.
>
I don't think we should change those package names, it's just a bunch of
work for no benefit IMO.

Cheers,
Julien