[Debichem-devel] Bug#843141: Bug#843141: Bug#843141: src:ga hijacked libga-dev from another package

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:56:43PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 01:11:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 12:37:30PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> > > Hi Adrian
> > 
> > Hi Graham,
> > 
> > > On 4 November 2016 at 11:47, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > > > libga-dev in Debian is built from  of src:galib since 2008,
> > > > but due to its higher version number src:ga has hijacked
> > > > this package (likely not intentionally).
> 
> Ouch. I have to admit I probaby didn't check when I packaged it, but I'm
> surprised ftp-master didn't catch it, either.

How could they catch it?

Binary packages move between source packages all the time,
and src:ga might just be a new version or fork of src:galib

> > > src:galib seems unmaintained since then, was orphaned in 2012
> > > (#674871), and removed from testing in July 2016 (due to #812053).
> > > 
> > > Would an option here be to just RM src:galib?
> > >...
> > 
> > this is not an option, since that would upgrade jessie users of 
> > libga-dev to a completely unrelated package.
> 
> As libga-dev ships three different libs anyway, one option would be to
> rename it to "ga-libs-dev", how does that sound?  The other option would
> be "libglobalarrays-dev".
> 
> Thoughts?

Part of the problem is that both ship a libga

> Michael

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Adrian

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