Hi Julien, The work is already done in this patch - do you see any ongoing issues?
Reasons I see for doing the renaming: - It's confusing for users to work out the name of the -dev packages to install. - It gives the incorrect impression you can install multiple -dev packages. - It means each time a library bumps soname then someone has to do a part of this patch (e.g. as was done for libxcb-sync-dev). Or it gets forgotten. Or the soname is added to the -dev package requiring a migration and another the next time it happens. - It confuses new packagers into thinking they need the soname in the -dev package. --Robert On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:26 PM Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 04:14:36 +0000, Robert Ancell wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to fix the -dev package names in libxcb - they currently have a > > version number on them which is not correct. The git branch for libxcb > > seems to be owned by collab-maint - should that be changed to pkg-xorg? > > > > I've attached a patch that fixes these package names, please let me know > > how to commit this to an appropriate branch. > > > I don't think we should change those package names, it's just a bunch of > work for no benefit IMO. > > Cheers, > Julien >
