Bug#928380: libxcb-xinput-dev: Breaks with libxcb1-dev 1.12-1
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 8:20 PM Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
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> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
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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?
>
>From two years ago? I don't think I have any systems running that, any more.
ChrisA
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