Bug#876300: libsundials-dev: libsundials-serial-dev is gone

[Paolo Greppi]

Il 24/12/2017 04:10, Dima Kogan ha scritto:
>> Should there be a transitional package to ease the migration ?
> 
> There's nothing that depends on libsundials-serial-dev, so it's not
> obvious to me we need a migration package. Why do you think we need it?
> 
> dima

Hi dima,

It will cause breakage when existing installs will be migrated to buster.
My understanding is that with 'apt dist-upgrade' libsundials-serial-dev will
be gone and nothing will hint the user that she should install libsundials-dev.

Users hitting this issue may stumble into this bug report and find some relief.

Or you could document that somewhere (but where).

The transitional package would be classy don't you think ?
and it shouldn't be too much work; we're case #5 of:
https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition

Paolo