[Pkg-phototools-devel] libgphoto2_2.4.10.1-4_i386.changes is NEW

[Andreas Metzler]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:02:15 +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote:

>>> (new) libgphoto2-dev-doc_2.4.10.1-4_all.deb optional doc
>>> (new) libgphoto2-dev_2.4.10.1-4_i386.deb optional libdevel
>>> (new) libgphoto2-doc_2.4.10.1-4_all.deb optional doc

>> Just for clarification, these are the NEW packages. The old libgphoto2-2-dev
>> has been renamed to libgphoto2-dev, to ease transitions in case of a SONAME
>> bump.
> [...]

> Afaiui this does not actually ease any transition, it just
> makes it *now* instead of at some unknown point in the future.

> Am I missing something?

I am asking since there is a non-neglible cost of this transition, 15
rc-bugs, making backports harder, etc.

cu andreas
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