[Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#658082: Bug#658082: please provide libvdeplug2-dev for "easy" build-depending

[Michael Tokarev]

On 31.01.2012 15:20, Ludovico Gardenghi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 13:03:37 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 
>> Current version of vde2 in sid has -dev package named
>> "libvdeplug-dev" instead of previously used "libvdeplug2-dev".
>> New package does not Provides: libvdeplug2-dev.  This makes
>> impossible to upload other packages depending on libvdeplug --
>> since version in testing does not have libvdeplug-dev.  As
> 
> Indeed the absence of Provides: makes transitions to testing harder. I'm
> about to upload vde2-2.3.2-3 with the Provides you suggested and
> urgency=high.

> Hopefully this version of vde2 will migrate to testing in a few days
> (2.3.2-2 would have been migrated today if it not was for the
> libvdeplug2-dev issue, so I feel safe to put urgency=high for .3 and
> have it migrate in 2 days).

Don't be in hurry: you need to fix it in _sid_ (unstable), not
in testing which has previous version still (hopefully anyway).

Please note that I already uploaded new version of qemu-kvm (a
package which prompted me to file this bugreport) with "fixed"
build-dependency (libvdeplug-dev | libvdeplug2-dev).  I'll keep
it this way for at least wheezy+, due to squeeze-backports.

> After the migration it's clearly deprecated to use libvdeplug-dev as
> build dependency. We'll take care to contact other maintainers and

Do you mean libvdeplug2-dev instead of libvdeplug-dev?  The latter
has just been introduced, so I see no good reason to deprecate it.

> inform them about the change, and we'll remove again the Provides: line
> once it's safer to do so.

Please don't do that soon, keep it for wheezy+.  You'll be making
it harder for squeeze->wheezy migration.  For -dev packages it is
not as important for libraries, but there's just no reason to be
in hurry here.

> Sorry for the inconvenience. :-)

Thank you for taking care of this!

/mjt