On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:56:43PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > 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.
How could they catch it? Binary packages move between source packages all the time, and src:ga might just be a new version or fork of src:galib > > > 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? Part of the problem is that both ship a libga > Michael cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed