Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Remove as many dependencies on old libraries as possible, this > includes: > > libjpegg6a, libncurses3.4, newt0.25, libpgsql, tk4.2, tcl7.6, > libwraster1, libpng0g > > and various older gtk/gnome libraries.
Looking at some of these, it occurs to me that one thing that may cause this to happen accidentally is when a -dev package includes a soname---because developers have to take an additional explicit step to be sure to compile with the new version---as an example, the existence of libpng0g-dev (rather than libpng-dev) would make it easy for people to miss the new -dev library. Should we try and remove sonames from -dev package names? Mike.
