[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#800481: dcmtk: versioned -dev package makes transitions too painful

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Emilio,

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:15:26AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 
> Your -dev package went from libdcmtk2-dev to libdcmtk4-dev. That makes
> transitions too painful as every reverse dependency needs a sourceful upload to
> change the build dependency, instead of the release team just scheduling binNMUs
> as is normally done.

I agree.  I just took over from a former Uploader in the team and did
not wanted to change his scheme but think it is not a good solution.
I'll upload a fixed package in the next couple of days.
 
> Let me know if I missed anything and there's a reason for the versioned -dev pkg
> (though AFAICS it makes no sense in this package).

You are perfectly right.

Kind regards

     Andreas. 

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