Hi! On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 16:00:09 +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > Accepted: > > Format: 1.8 > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:18:32 +0200 > Source: hurd-libfuse > Binary: libfuse-hurd-dev libfuse-hurd1 libfuse-hurd-dbg libfuse-dev > Architecture: source hurd-i386 > Version: 0.0.20140820-1 > Distribution: experimental > Urgency: medium > Maintainer: GNU Hurd Maintainers <[email protected]> > Changed-By: Pino Toscano <[email protected]> > Description: > libfuse-dev - Hurd-based FUSE API library - migration header > […] > Changes: > hurd-libfuse (0.0.20140820-1) experimental; urgency=medium > . > * New upstream snapshot. > […] > * Add a real libfuse-dev, whose version is based on the FUSE API it > implements (taken from the pkg-config file), which depends on > libfuse-hurd-dev. This allows libfuse-hurd-dev to satisfy versioned > libfuse-dev (build-)dependencies.
Unfortunately this is not a very good idea, because it will cause many problems in the Debian infrastructure, which is not prepared to handle such cases. Confusion with bug reports against the binary package (AFAIR debbugs sends copies to all source maintainers), confusion in the PTS, packages.debian.org and similar sites, etc. I don't remember offhand what else broke when we did something similar in the kfreebsd-ports with several compatibility packages, which now they are namespaced. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
