Bug#790509: libmpfi-dev: transitional package uninstallable

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2015-07-02 12:42:32 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I think the general consensus is to have more unversioned -dev packages
> to ease transitions, since in most cases a binNMU will be sufficient to
> pick up the dependency on the new SONAME.
> Even historically versioned ones have transitioned to unversioned ones
> (e.g. tiff3, tiff4 -> tiff). Also -dev package versioning (if needed) is
> usually by "project version", not by SOVERSION (the two tiffs have/had
> SOVERSIONS 4 and 5, respectively, which may be a bit confusing: you
> built against libtiff3-dev and got a dependency on libtiff4).

I suppose that the different versions on the -dev is to differentiate
the API, while the SONAME is to differentiate the ABI.

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