[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#809764: Bug#809764: Bug#809764: libqb6-dev and libqb-dev: error when trying to install together

[Ferenc Wagner]

Herbert Fortes (hpfn) <hpfn at ig.com.br> writes:

> "In case several development versions of a library exist, you may need
> to use dpkg's Conflicts mechanism"

I think the Policy means this between versions of the same library
(eg. your libqb6-dev and a later libqb7-dev).

But anyway, this is a more broader problem: there are now two libraries
named libqb in Debian.  Currently we provide libqb0 and libqb-dev
packages, you provide libqb6 and libqb6-dev and we have a guarranteed
file name conflict in the dev packages.  It's already confusing, but
there's no telling when the package names themselves will clash.  The
absolutely best solution would be persuading an upstream to change the
library name.  Webcamoid seems to be the newer project, therefore its Qb
library might have seen less use, so I don't find it unreasonable to
approach its maintainer with this problem.
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Regards,
Feri.