On 2019-12-11 Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote: > On Dec 11, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote:
> > there is really no need for a versioned libxcrypt1-dev package. > > Please rename that properly to libxcrypt-dev. > Can you be more specific in why this would not be allowed? > Currently I am not building libxcrypt2 and libxcrypt2-dev, but the > package is ready to do it. > libxcrypt1-dev and libxcrypt2-dev cannot be installed at the same time, > but libxcrypt1 and libxcrypt2 can. Hello Marco, Imho the major point is that dev packages should not be versioned to allow migrating from 1 to 2 (at some point) without having to change all rdep source packages. Debian usually tries to avoid shipping multiple versions of a shared library in a release. Are libxcrypt[12]-dev API compatible in some way? cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
