building against libgnutls28-dev or libgnutls-dev

[Mike Miller]

Hi GnuTLS team,

What is the recommendation or policy about build-depending on
libgnutls28-dev instead of libgnutls-dev?

Specifically, it looks to me like all packages in the archive
build-depend on libgnutls-dev, only gnutls28 itself links with
libgnutls28.

So other than
1. name difference in source package build-depends to keep track of
2. not being able to link with any other libs that may in turn link
with libgnutls26
any other reasons not to do it if one needs a feature in the 3.0 series?

Note: I don't plan to do this due to [2] above in my case, but I was
asked if it's possible and I'm curious under what cases it could or
couldn't be done in Debian.

-- 
mike