Bug#980535: gdk-pixbuf: Inconsistent naming

Gon Solo gonsolo at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 08:50:28 GMT 2021


Source: gdk-pixbuf
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: gonsolo at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

   I tried to install ardour from Debian experimental on Ubuntu. I know
   this is unusual but worked in the past. Now there is a new dependency
   on libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 which does not exist on Ubuntu. It is called
   libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 there (note the missing hypen). I managed to
   install ardour with --force-depends but now every time I am
   upgrading apt complains about missing dependencies. I noticed that
   the naming of binary packages in Debian is inconsistent, some include
   hypens (libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev) and some don't (libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin).
   I suggest naming them consistently with or without an hyphen or,
   since there is no version 1 in the repository, to just name it
   libgdk-pixbuf-dev and libgdk-pixbuf-bin). This way Ubuntu wouldn't
   need to rename packages and I could cross-install ardour as before.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

   Install ardour from Debian experimental on Ubuntu.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

   Broken dependencies.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

   Working upgrade with ardour installed.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
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