transition: liblo

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 04:26 +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> > Od: Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com>
> 
> FS> New upstream liblo bumps SONAME, so we need to transition. Also, we take
> FS> this opportunity to change the -dev package name to unversion it.
> FS> liblo-dev now provides liblo0-dev to avoid breaking too many packages.
> FS> However, rosegarden and sineshaper have versioned build-dependencies on
> FS> liblo0-dev. They both require versions already in oldstable, so a simple
> FS> NMU dropping the versioning is enough for them. All other packages
> FS> should require binNMUs, and the new version is supposed to be API-compatible
> FS> with the old one.
> 
> FS> Direct reverse dependencies:
>  
> FS> ardour
> FS> csound
> FS> dssi
> FS> fluidsynth-dssi
> FS> freej
> FS> hexter
> FS> jamin
> FS> ll-scope
> FS> nekobee
> FS> qtractor
> FS> rosegarden*
> FS> sineshaper*
> FS> whysynth
> FS> wsynth-dssi
> FS> xsynth-dssi
> 
> Hi Felipe, Free
> 
> just noticed that ardour was uploaded with "old" liblo0-dev dependency.
> Maybe we can change  "liblo0-dev" to "liblo-dev | liblo0-dev" in all pkg-multimedia repositories (hope it is fine in team working) and then contact maintainers of other packages which are not pkg-multimedia members to do it also.

I'm not quite sure this works. I recall some discussions about the
buildds not picking up alternative dependencies, but I can't remember
the result of that. On the other hand, liblo0-dev in sid already
provides liblo-dev so it /should/ be safe to just change from liblo0-dev
to liblo-dev.

-- 
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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