[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#783909: libgphoto2-2-dev missing for requested tests

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 05:58:21PM +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> Hi Emilio,
> 
> 
> Am Freitag, den 01.05.2015, 17:06 +0200 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> > On 01/05/15 15:20, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> > > Hello Emilio,
> > > 
> > > 
> [...]
> > >>
> > >> Sorry but I don't see how that makes it a libgphoto bug.
> > >>
> > > 
> > > libgphoto2-2-dev wasn't in libgphoto2??
> > 
> > Which isn't a bug, but an intended change.
> > 
> > You have to update your dependency to the new package name...
> > 
> 
> Have I once claimed that I had it not done?
> 
> But piuparts need for testing the last version installable. And there I
> can change anything.

piuparts isn't the problem. piuparts is just telling you that there is a
bug in your package libsane-dev, because it needs:

Depends: libgphoto2-dev

The problem isn't in libgphoto2 either.

> And it was nice to have a transitional package[1] also in sid/stretch.

Transitional packages are used to ease upgrades in stable, NOT for
papering over cracks in libraries in sid.

> block 783822 by 783909

This is pointless because 783909 is bogus. It would be better to merge them
or close this one.



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