[Debichem-devel] Bug#843141: Bug#843141: Bug#843141: src:ga hijacked libga-dev from another package

[Michael Banck]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 01:11:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 12:37:30PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> > Hi Adrian
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 
> > On 4 November 2016 at 11:47, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > > libga-dev in Debian is built from  of src:galib since 2008,
> > > but due to its higher version number src:ga has hijacked
> > > this package (likely not intentionally).

Ouch. I have to admit I probaby didn't check when I packaged it, but I'm
surprised ftp-master didn't catch it, either.

> > src:galib seems unmaintained since then, was orphaned in 2012
> > (#674871), and removed from testing in July 2016 (due to #812053).
> > 
> > Would an option here be to just RM src:galib?
> >...
> 
> this is not an option, since that would upgrade jessie users of 
> libga-dev to a completely unrelated package.

As libga-dev ships three different libs anyway, one option would be to
rename it to "ga-libs-dev", how does that sound?  The other option would
be "libglobalarrays-dev".

Thoughts?


Michael