Bug#648951: ahven: Should not provide a versionned -dev package

[Didier Raboud]

Le jeudi, 17 novembre 2011 09.35:36, Ludovic Brenta a écrit :
 Didier Raboud writes:
  Is there a good reason that I overlooked for those versionned -dev
  packages?
 
 Yes, there is. See the Debian Policy for Ada:
 http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html

Okay. I fail to see advantages to this policy but will trust your judgment. Is
the reasoning behind Build-Depending on a versionned gnat (aka gnat-4.4)
similar?

For the record; while triaging RC bugs [0], I usertagged some of them as
`qa-ftbfs-ada`:


http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-ftbfs-ada

As far as I can see, those are an almost direct consequence of this (IMHO
weird) policy…

Cheers,

OdyX

[0] http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/RC-usertagging


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Bug#648951: ahven: Should not provide a versionned -dev package

[Didier Raboud]

Source: ahven
Version: 2.1-1
Severity: normal

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Hi, 

For a reason I can't understand, ahven build a versioned -dev package: there
is libahven1-dev in stable; libahven2-dev in testing and libahven3-dev in
unstable, while each one is built from the same ahven source.

This creates conflicts problems (#646927), transition problems (as
libahven2-dev is now out-of-date with regards to transitions as it doesn't
exist in unstable) and forces the maintainers to go through the NEW queue for
each new upload.

Is there a good reason that I overlooked for those versionned -dev packages?

Cheers,

OdyX

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), 
(500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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