Bug#874563: apertium-all-dev: please switch dependency from libhfst45-dev to libhfst-dev (or libhfst49-dev)

[Tino Didriksen]

On 7 September 2017 at 12:29, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:

> src:hfst does no longer build libhfst45-dev, but there is libhfst49-dev
> now. Please consider whether you can just depend on the virtual
> libhfst-dev package provided by libhfst49-dev, that should ease future
> upgrades by not requiring any further changes in apertium-all-dev.



I've pushed a tiny fix for this (Kartik, could you upload?).

And I agree the explicit 49 is annoying, but virtual packages can't have
version requirements which is even more annoying. I have a plan for
splitting HFST further by adding a hfst-dev package, which I'll do for next
major HFST release.

-- Tino Didriksen
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