Re: virtual/alternative B-D (was Re: libtiff5 transition)

2013-12-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On 06/12/13 20:48, Philipp Kern wrote: So if you version your -dev package, do not install into an unversioned place like libtiff5-dev does. :) It seems to me that the good options are: * one unversioned -dev package, on the default gcc include path and/or relying on pkg-config to get the

virtual/alternative B-D (was Re: libtiff5 transition)

2013-12-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: * If your package build-depends on libtiff5-dev, you don't HAVE to do anything, but you may be helping yourself in the future if you change the build dependency to libtiff-dev ( 4.0.3-6~). Uhm, I have a rather general question here. libtiff-dev

Re: virtual/alternative B-D (was Re: libtiff5 transition)

2013-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:19:14AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: * If your package build-depends on libtiff5-dev, you don't HAVE to do anything, but you may be helping yourself in the future if you change the build dependency to libtiff-dev (

Re: virtual/alternative B-D (was Re: libtiff5 transition)

2013-12-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On 06/12/13 10:56, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:19:14AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: * If your package build-depends on libtiff5-dev, you don't HAVE to do anything, but you may be helping yourself in the future if you change

Re: virtual/alternative B-D (was Re: libtiff5 transition)

2013-12-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Simon McVittie wrote: As far as I can see, changing from (libtiffN-dev Provides libtiff-dev, libtiff(N+1)-dev does not) to the other way round has an inherent race Hm indeed. Makes me wonder whether it would not be better to make libtiff-dev the real package and abandon libtiffN-dev altogether.

Re: virtual/alternative B-D (was Re: libtiff5 transition)

2013-12-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-12-06, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: Hm indeed. Makes me wonder whether it would not be better to make libtiff-dev the real package and abandon libtiffN-dev altogether. (Never understood why the -dev packages need the numbers, anyway.) The -dev packages needs numbers if you

Re: virtual/alternative B-D (was Re: libtiff5 transition)

2013-12-06 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk wrote: On 2013-12-06, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: Hm indeed. Makes me wonder whether it would not be better to make libtiff-dev the real package and abandon libtiffN-dev altogether. (Never understood why the -dev packages need the numbers, anyway.)

Re: virtual/alternative B-D (was Re: libtiff5 transition)

2013-12-06 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:38:47PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2013-12-06, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: Hm indeed. Makes me wonder whether it would not be better to make libtiff-dev the real package and abandon libtiffN-dev altogether. (Never understood why the -dev packages