Running out of letters for libmutter0x / handle the ABI breaks differently

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

I'd like to change how we handle libmutter. Atm, upstream breaks ABI
almost with each new GNOME release and we deal with that by renaming the
package name (including a roundtrip through NEW).

I propose that we stop renaming libmutter, but instead generate strict
dependencies in the form of
libmutter0 (>= $GNOME_VERSION), libmutter0 (<< $NEXT_GNOME_VERSION)

It would basically be the same as for libevolution.

libmutter0 is in wheezy, so it would be reasonably safe to re-use that
name again. The alternative would be, to simply drop the soversion from
the package name.

Thoughts?

Michael

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