[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#780240: libgphoto2-port10: Wrong transition package for ABI changing library

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-03-11 22:20, Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn) wrote:
>> There must not be a libgphoto2_port.so.10 symlink in the libgphoto2-port12 
>> package.
> 
> Why ? It was important when I did the tests.

Then something is seriously borked in your package.

The new library is not a valid replacement for the old one (otherwise
there would have been no need for a soname change) - a proper library
transition is required and all packages depending on libgphoto2-port10
will need to be rebuild against the new one to pick up the new
dependency. With the wrong symlink removed, you can coinstall
libgphoto2-port10 and libgphoto2-port12, so packages that have not yet
been rebuild will continue usabale.

Andreas