Hi Sven,
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 01:13, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> > [snip]
>
> 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.
This is helpful and offer an immediate way forward.
I'll be uploading FreeType 2.13.1 in a few weeks, so I'll drop
libfreetype6-dev at that time.
I'm curious: do you plan to drop Provides: libncurses5-dev (=
${binary:Version}), ... from your control file at some point?
Hugh
