[Pkg-phototools-devel] Apparently uncoordinated libnetpbm transition.

[Peter Green]

On 25/04/2022 14:55, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On 07-04-2022 09:21, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Sorry, that's my fault.  I'm preparing an upload to fix #1007984
>> targeting new.
>
> Looking at https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/netpbm-free_2:10.98.00-1.html, is there any reason why you didn't add "Provides:
> libnetpbm9-dev, libnetpbm10-dev"?
>
> If that would work, it would prevent updates in at least 7 source packages: https://qa.debian.org/dose/debcheck/src_testing_main/1650862802/amd64.html If it wouldn't work, it seems to me that an unversioned -dev package doesn't bring us much.
>
> Paul
>
> (I was about to ping ftp master to accept your package, but in the current state it wouldn't solve the problem)

The version with the unversioned libnetpbm-dev was rejected.
(due to reasons unrelated to the package rename)

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