why have the libsasl packages been renamed?

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:06:14AM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> i've got some locally compiled packages which Depends: libsasl2 ... yet 
> now when i want to dist-upgrade they're slated to be removed because of 
> the new libsasl2-2 packages which have Replaces: libsasl2 ... and of 
> course i can't even attempt to rebuild my packages because the 
> libsasl2-2-dev packages depend on libsasl2-2 packages... which will force 
> my packages to be uninstalled.
> 
> this seems rather screwed up.
> 
Henrique has already addressed why this was done.  As far as building
your packages, the "best" way to build them is inside of a pbuilder or a
clean chroot.  If you do this, you won't have to worry about the build
dependencies messing up anything on your production machines.

Regards,

-Roberto

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