Bug#710595: allegro4.4: Rename liballegro4.2-dev to liballegro4-dev

Tobias Hansen thansen at debian.org
Sat Jun 1 08:19:44 UTC 2013


Source: allegro4.4
Version: 2:4.4.2-2.1
Severity: normal

The name of the dev package liballegro4.2-dev was kept in the 4.2 -> 4.4 transition following advice from the release team.
That's confusing and should be changed to liballegro4-dev. We can set for that package "Provides: liballegro4.2-dev",
but that will not satisfy versioned build dependencies on liballegro4.2-dev. Right now, liballegro4.2-dev provides liballegro4-dev.
That means the only build dependencies that will work before and after the renaming are unversioned ones on either of the
names. I will file bugs against reverse dependencies with versioned build dependencies and use this bug to track them.

Cheers,
Tobias



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