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 _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel

