[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Unnecessary renaming of development package

[Filippo Giunchedi]

Hello Luk,

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:19:58PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Hi bluez-libs maintainers
> 
> The recent renaming of the development package from libbluetooth1-dev to
> libbluetooth2-dev was not needed. It's also unfortunate that you made
> package immediate RC buggy without a warning to the affected maintainers
> (via the BTS at least).

maintainers of affected packages have been informed once libbluetooth2 hit
unstable via mail to <package>@packages.debian.org (I can open relevant
transition bugs if needed).

> 
> The renaming of the development package was not necessary as rebuilding
> the packages against libbluetooth2 is enough (there was only an ABI
> change, not a change in the API which in turn could need source changes
> in the reverse dependencies).
> 
> Due to renaming the development package the reverse dependencies are not
> only instantly made RC buggy, but they are not fixable with binNMUs.
> They all need source uploads... which obviously takes longer and makes
> transitioning to testing in most cases more complex.

allright, this looks like a quite straight transition to me, anyway I've yet to
see any reaction from maintainers except from gnokii/gammu ones.

> 
> Please in the future remind to communicate package renaming with all the
> maintainers of reverse (build) dependencies and also inform the Release
> Team if it involves more than a handful of packages.

Anyway, is this procedure documented somewhere? It doesn't seem like a good idea
to have libbluetoothX-dev when soname of the included library is in fact Y, but
perhaps I'm missing something.

filippo
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