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

[Herbert Fortes (hpfn)]

> > "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.

I was thinking about talk to the upstream. But it
will take more time to solve the situation.

What about the bug ?


regards,
-- 
Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn)