[Pkg-opencl-devel] Should I `Provides: opencl-[html|man]-doc`

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-06-02 12:13, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>> On 2015-05-28 10:28, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>> [CC me please]

>>> Now that OpenCL 2.0 is out, I considering building two new binary packages:
>>>
>>> - opencl-2.0-html-doc
>>> - opencl-2.0-man-doc
>>
>> In addition to *-1.2-* or replacing them?
> 
> Replacing them.

Is there any reason to have the package names versioned, i.e. some
intended co-installability of different versions?
Otherwise they could be called just opencl-{man,html}-doc (with version
2.0~svnXXXXX-Y)
Or a "real" opencl-ZZZ-doc that depends on the current
opencl-X.Y-ZZZ-doc.

>>> Because `Virtual` package [*] are a new thing to me, I was hoping for
>>> some guidance here on what best to do here.
>>
>> What are the (intended) rdepends of these -doc packages (both real and
>> virtual)?
> 
> No rdepends (AFAIK). I was just concerned by people loosing the -doc
> package just because of a version bump...

In that case a Provides and virtual packages won't help. A clean upgrade
path would require transitional packages (maybe to unversioned ones).


Andreas