Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i maintain trickle which links against libevent. now libevent has > changed its soname so my old binary packages depend on libevent0 which > is no longer available as it is replaced with libevent1. i checked and i > have to change absolutely zero, but just recompile to make it fork fine > again. i guess this happens all the time, but what should i do? > > - bump the version number a bit and add a respective changelog entry, > then re-upload > - or ask (where?) to rebuild the source that is already in the archive ?
You should change the version number (Debian revision, generally), rebuild, and reupload. That makes the question of "does trickle 1.06-2 depend on libevent0 or libevent1" unambiguous, among other things. "It really is a new build of the package." -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
