Bug#557765: libfishsound1-dev: The -dev package should be named libfishsound-dev

Ron ron at debian.org
Tue Aug 1 02:35:51 UTC 2017


On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:05:34AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> So, perhaps now is a good time to rename the -dev package?
> What do the rest of you think?  Any of you have time to follow
> up the migration process?  I doubt I will any time soon. :(

Personally, I don't see much value in gratuitous renaming of packages.

The original "bug" reported was:

 "The -dev package should be named libfishsound-dev, without the 1, so that
  reverse dependencies don't need to bump their build dependency whenever
  the ABI changes."

And it's now been nearly 8 years, and that fear still hasn't actually
come true.  It hasn't changed ABI, so it would be a bit ironic to make
this be a self-fulfilling prophecy and break the rdeps just to close
this bug :)

If it ever does change ABI, *that* might be a good time to rename this,
but even then, if you don't want coinstallability, you still wouldn't
*have* to rename the -dev package from what it is now, so this problem
could be avoided that way too.

In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557765#10, the
maintainer at the time wrote:

> close 557765
> tags 557765 wontfix

but just didn't actually CC the control server with that.  So if you
just want to get this off the triage radar, that seems like the better
option to me - unless I'm missing something like there being an actual
ABI change about to happen.

  Cheers,
  Ron



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