[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#836990: libcamitk4: fails to upgrade from 'jessie' - trying to overwrite /usr/bin/camitk-config

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 09:51:28AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>...
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 09:08:26AM +0200, Emmanuel Promayon wrote:
>...
> > For uniformity sake, should I do the same for the non -dev suffixed package
> > (e.g. libcamitk4 -> libcamitk)?
> 
> No.  The library packages should be coinstallable for different ABI
> versions but usually users do need only one devel package.
>...

Note that coninstallable implies either renaming /usr/bin/camitk-config,
or moving it to a libcamitk-bin package (depending on whether it is
specific for one libcamitk version or usable with all).

> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.

cu
Adrian

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