Hello,

> < enrico> "Suppose" I have a source package 'tagcoll' that
>         generates libtagcoll1-dev.  One day I change API and I change
>         the source package to generate libtagcoll2-dev.  Suppose
>         there's a package called 'packagesearch' which build-deps on
>         libtagcoll1-dev, would libtagcoll1-dev be preserved until
>         'packagesearch' exists, or packagesearch will become
>         unbuildable?
>   < dato> enrico: it will become unbuildable
> < enrico> dato: ok, thanks. and sigh :(
> < enrico> it makes sense, though
Ok, I have taken a look at some packages having the same problem. They
all rename the source package on each upload. E.g. at libmysqlclient.
They have 12-dev, 14-dev, 15-dev, 10-dev,.... 

> So, I thought I solved the problem with packagesearch building with the
> old packages while we upload the new ones, but I was wrong.
Probably you better make sure nobody is using your library ;-)

Greetings Ben


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