Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
On 2023-03-11 09:40 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Package: libtinfo-dev
> Version: 6.4-2
> Severity: normal
> user: qa.debian....@packages.debian.org
> usertags: transitional
>
> Please drop the transitional package libtinfo-dev (from the source package
> ncurses) after the release of bookworm, it has been released with buster and
> bullseye already...
I know, but some packages are still build-depending on it. If I am
informed correctly, sbuild prefers real packages over virtual ones when
resolving build dependencies, and if libtinfo-dev were to be dropped,
the old version remains as cruft in the archive and is uninstallable.
Note that libtinfo-dev has a strict versioned dependency on libtinfo6
because of the /usr/share/doc symlink.
If that analysis is correct, packages build-depending on libtinfo-dev
will enter status BD-Uninstallable, which is bad. Would you like to
file bugs on those packages and add them as blockers for this bug?
Thanks for taking care of crufty transitional packages.
Cheers,
Sven
