[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#917444: net-snmp: Please switch Build-Depends to libsensors-dev from libsensors4-dev

[Aurelien Jarno]

Source: net-snmp
Version: 5.7.3+dfsg-4
Severity: wishlist
User: aurel32 at debian.org
Usertags: libsensors-dev-transition

Dear maintainer,

net-snmp build-depends on libsensors4-dev, the development package
from lm-sensors. For historical reasons the development package is
versioned. Following the transition of the library to libsensors5,
it makes sense to rename the development package to libsensors-dev.

In that regard a "Provides: libsensors-dev" has been added. Given
net-snmp uses a non-versioned Build-Depends it is already safe
to transition your package to use libsensors-dev instead of
libsensors4-dev.

There is no urgency (yet) to do the change, but it would be nice if
you can piggyback that change in the next upload. It should just be
a matter of running:

  sed -i -e 's/libsensors4-dev/libsensors-dev/g' debian/control

Thanks,
Aurelien