<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div>On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Osamu Aoki <<a href="mailto:osamu_aoki_home@nifty.com">osamu_aoki_home@nifty.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:56:49PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:<br>
> > > The renaming is due to a backward-incompatible API change in<br>> > > librime 1.0, where some struct members changed types. So I<br>> > > followed the recommendation here.[1]<br>> > ><br>
> > > [1] <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/TransitionBestPractices">https://wiki.debian.org/TransitionBestPractices</a><br>> ><br>> > That advice is wrong. Renaming the -dev package makes sense if you're going to<br>
> > keep the two versions of the library for a while, e.g. libgtk2.0-dev and<br>> > libgtk-3-dev, which usually means you renamed the source package (gtk+2.0 and<br>> > gtk+3.0 in my example). In your case, you want to keep the same librime-dev<br>
> > package name. Can you change it back?<br>> ><br>> > I will review and edit that wiki page, thanks for the link.<br>><br>> Very good. That is my thought but there was no external resource<br>> backing it.<br>
><br>> Havoc has interesting post on multi dev library case as below,<br>><br>> Jere is what I wrote previously ...<br>> > I do agree to use the versioned -dev when these 2 -dev package are made<br>> > to be co-installable and useful in such shape. This happens with major<br>
><br>> This practically means source package with different name.<br>><br>> > libraries. For this, it require us to do more than bumping number in<br>> > -dev package name. See example:<br>> > <a href="http://ometer.com/parallel.html">http://ometer.com/parallel.html</a><br>
> > (HP used to work at R-H and used to be with Debian as I understand)<div><br></div><div>Thank you for this reference.</div><div><br></div><div>As I understand, our current advice should be: you never need</div>
<div>to change the name of the -dev package, as long as the source</div><div>package name is not changed. Is this correct?<br><div><br>> I will upload new git head when prompted. Is it ready?<br><br>Yes, it is. (I just noticed you already uploaded it. Thanks a lot!)<br>
<br><div>Yixuan</div></div></div></div>