[Debian GNUstep maintainers] gratuitous -dev package renaming

[Steve Langasek]

Can someone please explain to me why all of the gnustep -dev packages need
to have the upstream version number in their names?  The new and old -dev
packages don't seem to be API-incompatible; I've just NMUed one package that
was left uninstallable in unstable, and all it took to rebuild it was to
change the build-dependencies.  Yet there are literally dozens of packages
that have been left unbuildable for over a month since the new upstream
version of gnustep was uploaded, with no sign of activity.

Are there really differences in the new version that warrant forcing
sourceful changes in all of the reverse-dependencies?  If not, I'm inclined
to NMU gnustep-base and gnustep-gui to Provide: the old names of these -dev
packages and schedule binNMUs for the affected packages, so that this
gnustep transition doesn't continue to drag on.

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