Bug#723979: libmapserver-6.2.1{, -dev}: transitional packages uninstallable

Package: libmapserver-6.2.1,libmapserver-6.2.1-dev Version: 6.4.0-1 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package is no longer installable in sid: Package: libmapserver-6.2.1 Version: 6.4.0-1 Depends: libmapserver1

Processed: Re: Bug#723979: libmapserver-6.2.1{, -dev}: transitional packages uninstallable

Processing control commands: fixed -1 6.4.0-2 Bug #723979 [libmapserver-6.2.1,libmapserver-6.2.1-dev] libmapserver-6.2.1{,-dev}: transitional packages uninstallable There is no source info for the package 'libmapserver-6.2.1' at version '6.4.0-2' with architecture '' There is no source info

Bug#723979: libmapserver-6.2.1{, -dev}: transitional packages uninstallable

On 2013-09-22 01:30, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: But do you really need transitional packages for a shared library? From changelog and bugs it looked like it could be the right thing for libmapserver* (I didn't look at the package at all): moving from an unstable API (with hopefully very strict

Bug#723979: libmapserver-6.2.1{, -dev}: transitional packages uninstallable

Hi Andreas, Thanks again for you detailed explanation. I've updated the package on mentors to drop the transitional packages for the old libmapserver packages. Since there are no file conflicts the Break/Replaces has also been removed from the libmapserver1 package. Kind Regards, Bas --