Bug#721509: nmu: binNMU for libgtkdatabox rdepends

[Michael Biebl]

Am 01.09.2013 19:03, schrieb Julien Cristau:
> On Sun, Sep  1, 2013 at 15:05:22 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: binnmu
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> afaics, the rdeps of libgtkdatabox are currently blocking the cruft removal of
>> libgtkdatabox-0.9.1-1 [1] and in turn glade-3
>>
>> Both libgtkdatabox-0.9.1-dev and libgtkdatabox-0.9.2-dev provide
>> libgtkdatabox-dev, so I think a binNMU should be sufficient.
>>
> I'm not sure that's going to work.  Why is the -dev package versioned
> anyway?

No idea, I'm not the maintainer (CCed)

That said, I've asked ftp-masters to do a partial removal and get rid of
libgtkdatabox-0.9.1-dev from sid. See #721512, which I marked as blocker
for this bug after asking basically the same question on #debian-buildd

Cheers,
Michael

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