[Python-modules-team] Bug#640979: libqscintilla2-6: package name change breaks other packages dependencies

[Fabrice Flore-Thebault]

Package: libqscintilla2-6
Version: 2.5.1-1
Severity: wishlist


Sorry for this newbie question:

Why did you change the package *name* for a *version* change?

The package changed its name from libqscintilla2-5 to libqscintilla2-6

It made, for instance, serna package uninstallable, see Bug #640948.
A rebuild of the serna package against the new libqscintilla2-6 is sufficient to
get it working again.

Shouldn't it be enough to change the version in the package and not the name?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libqscintilla2-6 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.13-18    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.6.1-4  GCC support library
ii  libqtcore4                    4:4.7.3-5  Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                     4:4.7.3-5  Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6                    4.6.1-4    GNU Standard C++ Library v3

libqscintilla2-6 recommends no packages.

libqscintilla2-6 suggests no packages.

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