[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#994921: Bug#994921: librnd3-dev: missing Breaks+Replaces: librnd-dev

Bdale Garbee bdale at gag.com
Sat Sep 25 06:55:14 BST 2021


Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> writes:

> I'm not sure whether it would be helpful, but a (versioned?)
>   Provides: librnd-dev (= ${binary:Version})
> could ease upgrading from librnd-dev to librnd3-dev.

Yes, that makes sense.  

> BTW, why has the -dev package been renamed from librnd-dev to librnd3-dev?
> It's not for co-installability of new and old versions since librnd-dev
> was removed from sid.

Upstream anticipates that it will be useful to have librnd3-dev and
librnd4-dev able to co-exist once librnd4 is released in the future, so
recommended I change the package name to avoid future confusion.

Bdale
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