On Sun, 09 Dec 2007, Micha Lenk wrote:
> Hi Raphael,
> 
> you wrote:
> > Are you able to link aqbanking-tool against the libs of the version 3 ?
> 
> No, it would link against the old libs of the version 2, which would
> then be provided by the same source package.

Which means that you need to rename all the libraries packages so that
they can co-exist in unstable. And since the soname of the library has
not changed it means that they are not co-installable.

This doesn't look a good idea to me...

> > Take a decision:
> > - either deprecate aqbanking-tool properly and make it an empty package
> >   depending on aqbanking-tools (so that upgrade for users is smooth)
> > - or package it separately if you want to keep it around
> 
> I think I will go for a separately packaged aqbanking-tool then.

See above. I'm not convinced it's a reasonable thing to do. How long will
aqbanking v2 be maintained upstream ?

Cheers,
-- 
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