On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 01:11:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 12:37:30PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > > Hi Adrian > > Hi Graham, > > > On 4 November 2016 at 11:47, Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> wrote: > > > libga-dev in Debian is built from of src:galib since 2008, > > > but due to its higher version number src:ga has hijacked > > > this package (likely not intentionally).
Ouch. I have to admit I probaby didn't check when I packaged it, but I'm surprised ftp-master didn't catch it, either. > > src:galib seems unmaintained since then, was orphaned in 2012 > > (#674871), and removed from testing in July 2016 (due to #812053). > > > > Would an option here be to just RM src:galib? > >... > > this is not an option, since that would upgrade jessie users of > libga-dev to a completely unrelated package. As libga-dev ships three different libs anyway, one option would be to rename it to "ga-libs-dev", how does that sound? The other option would be "libglobalarrays-dev". Thoughts? Michael