[Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#658082: Bug#658082: please provide libvdeplug2-dev for "easy" build-depending

[Ludovico Gardenghi]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 15:26:10 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> > Hopefully this version of vde2 will migrate to testing in a few days
> > (2.3.2-2 would have been migrated today if it not was for the
> > libvdeplug2-dev issue, so I feel safe to put urgency=high for .3 and
> > have it migrate in 2 days).
> 
> Don't be in hurry: you need to fix it in _sid_ (unstable), not
> in testing which has previous version still (hopefully anyway).

Well, actually the testing version is *really* old and has definitely
more bugs than the unstable one, so I'd rather not delay the
migration for other 10 days. :-) Since I did no modifications in 2.3.2-3
w.r.t. 2.3.2-2 except for the Provides: line, I don't expect that
2.3.2-3 will generate many more RC bugs than 2.3.2-2 did.

> Please note that I already uploaded new version of qemu-kvm (a
> package which prompted me to file this bugreport) with "fixed"
> build-dependency (libvdeplug-dev | libvdeplug2-dev).  I'll keep
> it this way for at least wheezy+, due to squeeze-backports.

Makes sense.

> > After the migration it's clearly deprecated to use libvdeplug-dev as
> > build dependency. We'll take care to contact other maintainers and
> Do you mean libvdeplug2-dev instead of libvdeplug-dev?  The latter
> has just been introduced, so I see no good reason to deprecate it.

Yes, I corrected myself in another mail.

> > inform them about the change, and we'll remove again the Provides: line
> > once it's safer to do so.
> Please don't do that soon, keep it for wheezy+.  You'll be making
> it harder for squeeze->wheezy migration.  For -dev packages it is
> not as important for libraries, but there's just no reason to be
> in hurry here.

We'd just try to make sure that people stop using libvdeplug2-dev unless
they need to, as "sooner or later" it would be nice to get rid of this
package name. So it will stay as long as it's needed for smooth
upgrades/migrations.

Ludovico
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