[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#901297: Bug#901297: libnode64-dev: rename to libnode-dev

[Jérémy Lal]

2018-06-11 8:59 GMT+02:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org>:

> Package: libnode64-dev
> Version: 10.4.0~dfsg-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> Your shared library package is named libnode64, since it ships
> libnode.so.64.
> That is fine. However the development package should be named libnode-dev,
> so that rdeps build-dep on libnode-dev and when upstream bumps the SONAME,
> a binNMU is enough to rebuild them against the new SONAME. Otherwise if
> they
> build-depend on libnode64-dev, rdeps would need sourceful uploads, making
> transitions unnecessarily difficult.
>
> Besides, libnode64-dev and libnode65-dev would never be co-installable and
> would need to conflict against each other, so there's no point in
> versioning
> them.
>

Hi,

There is already a libnode-dev package, provided by libnode64-dev.
However i don't have any reason to not build only the former.

Thank you for that.

Jérémy.
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