Bug#928380: libxcb-xinput-dev: Breaks with libxcb1-dev 1.12-1

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

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On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 08:40:03PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Package: libxcb-xinput-dev
> Version: 1.13.1-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Having the Debian Unstable repository available (even with a low priority) causes
> libxcb-xinput-dev to be installable, but leaves the older libxcb1-dev from Debian
> Stable. This results in compilation errors from any app that attempts to #include
> the xinput headers, due to a version incompatibility.
> 
> The solution is to uninstall libxcb-xinput-dev, or to migrate far more packages
> to the newer version (including upgrading libc).
> 
> The problem appears to be a simple packaging issue, where the dependency is shown
> as simply "libxcb1-dev" with no version information attached. If it declared that
> it required libxcb1-dev version 1.13.1-2, this would inform apt correctly.
> 
Can you provide more details about the errors you were seeing?

Cheers,
Julien