Bug#810990: libxmlrpcpp-dev: /usr/include/base64.h already shipped by heimdal-dev

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:38:35AM +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've pushed changes to libxmlrpcpp-dev to move the base64.h to
> /usr/include/xmlrpcpp [1]. Would it be ok if I reassign this to
> libxmlrpcpp-dev and close it, or should we split it, to leave one open
> for heimdal-dev?
> 
> * Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> [2016-01-16 03:26]:
> > Debian now has this xmplrpc c++ implementation: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xmlrpc-c
> > maybe ros-ros-comm could just use that? I've not looked to see how well the APIs match up. 
> 
> ROS upstream is currently working on ROS2, replacing most of the core
> system, so I hope this gets resolved with that.

Heimdal already ships a package (heimdal-multidev) that moves these files into
/usr/include/heimdal. 

heimdal-dev currently merely ships symlinks to these files in /usr/include
for backwards compatibility reasons. I'll see if we can remove the backwards
compatibility symlinks.

Cheers,

Jelmer