Hi I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually written in debian/control file. The build package dependency is valuable since -lcurl is among 'libetpan-config --ldflags' output.
I've got a wishlist report (#467297), where reporter asks to add alternative dependency libcurl3-gnutls-dev for better backporting support. While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev, but on exact one that was actually used when building package. How to handle this properly? Nikita
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