On 2023-07-16 22:38 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > I will be removing the transitional package libfreetype6-dev (from the > source package freetype) later this year. > > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct) > dependencies on libfreetype6-dev, which has been released with > bullseye and bookworm. > I plan to file bugs against source packages first and against any > remaining binary packages later. > > A list of affected source and binary packages is attached. > > Happy to discuss if anyone has any suggestions or concerns.
My suggestion is to drop the libfreetype6-dev package immediately and not waste your and other people's time with mass-bug filing, because libfreetype-dev already has a versioned Provides on libfreetype6-dev. This is what I did with three transitional -dev packages in ncurses, and although I had initially been skeptical it worked like a charm. See the discussion in #1032708. Cheers, Sven