Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

[The Wanderer]

(Apologies to Felipe for the duplicate reply; I didn't notice until after
sending that the To: didn't include the bug address.)

On 12/10/2012 10:15 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:25 PM, The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
>> Package: libjack-dev
>> Version: 1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> When I attempt to dist-upgrade to current testing, apt wants to remove
>> libjack0 and install libjack-jackd2-0. This is fine; the latter explicitly
>> Provides: the same virtual package as the former, so presumably this is
>> part of an intended package transition.
> 
> Is this expected to happen? Does anything strictly depend on jack2?

Not that I've been able to identify so far.

As part of this same dist-upgrade, a flood of new lib*:i386 packages are being
installed, I think as part of the ia32-libs dummy-package transition. It doesn't
seem impossible that one of them is depending on jackd2 or similar, but I
haven't been able to identify any which does.

Also, if I hold libjack-dev and jackd1, the dist-upgrade no longer attempts to
remove them - but the only packages which disappear from the upgrade or the
new-install lists are libjack-jackd2-0, libjack-jackd2-0:i386, jackd2, and
jackd2-firewire.

My only guess is that one of the new packages Recommends: one of the jack2
packages, but I have no idea which one it might be.

>> As part of the same dist-upgrade, apt wants to remove libjack-dev, but does
>> not attempt to install libjack-jackd2-dev. This is not fine.
> 
> Maybe we should convert libjack-dev to a dummy package like jackd.

If I understand the problem correctly from what Jonas has explained, that would
not seem like an appropriate solution.

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