[Debian-ha-maintainers] corosync-dev section and priority

Ferenc Wágner wferi at niif.hu
Thu Jun 23 09:26:26 UTC 2016


Hi,

https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/corosync.html says:

  There were override disparities found in suite unstable:
    corosync-dev: Override says libdevel - optional, .deb says oldlibs - extra

I've made a commit like

>From 4f92595d5769a62d782609b7d590495129ed369a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ferenc=20W=C3=A1gner?= <wferi at niif.hu>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:50:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Resolve override disparity of corosync-dev

This is a transitional package now, not an "old version of a library, kept
for backward compatibility with old applications".  Thus oldlibs does not
seem like a good fit, even though the oldlibs section of the Debian archive
is full of transitional packages.  For the same reason, there's not much
point in overriding the priority either.
---
 debian/control | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 506a085..5d2233e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ Description: cluster engine HTML documentation
  generated by Doxygen.
 
 Package: corosync-dev
-Section: oldlibs 
-Priority: extra
+Section: libdevel
 Architecture: all
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},

but became uncertain.  Should we respect tradition or the word of
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/ (which I may even misinterpret)? 
Also note that corosync-dev is not transitional is stable.
--
Thanks,
Feri



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