[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#763605: libjpeg-turbo-progs: Please don't drop libjpeg-progs dummy package

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Santiago,

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014, at 11:49, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Package: libjpeg-turbo-progs
> Version: 1:1.3.1-4
> Severity: serious
> 
> Changelog says:
> 
>  * Remove dummy libjpeg-progs from libjpeg-turbo
> 
> I wonder why is the reason for this.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763360#20

(and #754988 FWIW)

> The result of removing the dummy package is that the user has to
> approve the upgrade by hand because there are packages that are
> *removed*. This is what currently happens in an upgrade from testing
> to unstable:
> 
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   libjpeg-progs
> 
> That will be also what will happen in an upgrade from current stable
> to testing if we allow this package to enter testing.
> 
> Upgrades are smoother if we have dummy packages like this one. Having
> smooth upgrades has been always one of the goals of Debian.

Yes, I agree.

> Please do not make the upgrade more tricky by dropping dummy packages.

This should be remedied by src:libjpeg9 providing libjpeg-progs as
requested
by Bill Allombert, the libjpeg6b/8/9 maintainer.

If you want to make this a tad bit clearer, you can report bug against
libjpeg9
to provide libjpeg-progs and add block relation between that and this
bug.

Ondrej
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