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

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:56:43PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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).
> > >
> > > 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".

I went with libglobalarrays-dev as that seemed easiest.

Does anybody think Conflicts/Provides/Replaces are needed?  AFAIK,
there's no reverse build-dependencies for "our" libga-dev yet, so it
shouldn't be a big problem; but any possible current users would be
confused.  Then again, that might hijack the other libga-dev even more.


Michael