Comments regarding timbl_6.4.4-2_i386.changes

[Luca Falavigna]

2013/5/27 Ko van der Sloot <Ko.vanderSloot at uvt.nl>:
> Well, the previous version was called libtimbl3-dev.
> There were a lot of changes in the software, so incrementing to 4 seemed
> a good plan.

Is API stable enough, or does it change every new upstream version?
This is basically the major reason of using a versioned -dev package.

> Changing the name will affect the dependencies of upcoming releases of 5
> or 6 other packages too.
> So if it is wise to change, it is better to do it now, I suppose.

Reverse dependencies would have to be transitioned anyway, so it
should be better to do it once and for all, assuming the API is
"stable".

Cheers,
Luca