Bug#705181: Understanding of the status of this bug.

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2013/9/2 Michael Janssen (Debian) <jamuraa at debian.org>:
> Reading through this bug and seeing that both of the referenced bugs
> (#704044 and #674633) had been fixed, I was confused as to why
> libogre-dev still was depending on libboost1.49.
>
> After reading through #704044, it's my understanding that people
> should move to depending on libogre-1.8-dev instead of libogre-dev
> when building packages for Debian when possible, and eventually
> libogre-dev will disappear - is this correct?

Yes, the last bit is correct.

The current libogre-dev is 1.7, which has been discontinued quite a
while ago.  I'm only waiting for the last programs depending on it to
switch to 1.8 to remove it from the archive.

Also, major versions of OGRE are usually not backwards compatible
(haven't been in the last few years, possibly never), so having a
generic name "libogre-dev" without version information doesn't help,
almost all programs using it have to be updated at the same time.
That is, upgrading "libogre-dev" from 1.7 to 1.8 will break the
reverse-depends FTBFS.  So I'm stopping using "libogre-dev" and use
versioned names instead.

Is it more clear now?


Cheers.
--
Manuel