On 26/01/16 20:19, Tobias Frost wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 26.01.2016, 18:07 +0100 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo > Monfort: >> On 26/01/16 17:54, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>> Hi Emilio! >>> >>> >>>> Can send another summary with your proposed plan here? Currently >>>> libpng12-dev >>>> provides libpng-dev but libpng16-dev doesn't. Are you going to >>>> switch that? Or >>>> do you plan to build a libpng-dev package from src:libpng1.6? >>> >>> >>> sure, the only reason that libpng-dev wasn't provided has been to >>> avoid people building accidentally >>> with libpng16 when uploading on experimental. >>> >>> IIRC the plan is to upload on unstable with the Provides: libpng- >>> dev line enabled >>> (it is already there, just commented), >>> and the change for the udeb file conflict (ongoing test right now). >>> >>> I think libpng12-dev will stop providing the libpng-dev at the same >>> time, but I'm not sure >> >> Either that needs to happen, or a real libpng-dev package needs to be >> built. >> Otherwise if we have libpng12-dev and libpng16-dev providing libpng- >> dev, things >> won't be deterministic. > > >>> > > > (My*) plan'd be to upload (1) libpng12 WITHOUT providing libpng-dev and > (2) libpng16 WITH providing it. > > I'm not sure whats better: if that should happen at the very same time, > or if we should delay (2) until e.g the -12 package arrived at all > archs, to ensure that there will be no point of time where libpng-dev > is provided by two packages or solve any races by delaying the start of > the binnmus until we can ensure that all archs are getting the right > one. > > A real libpng-dev package would be actually my* favorite, but this > requires going through NEW and I fear that that would destroy the > momentum we experience now to push this forward. Also, a real libpng- > dev Package could still be introduced later. > > -- > tobi > > * Nobuhiro / Anibal should give the definitive direction how the want > to manage their package...
This hasn't been answered yet. That should be dealt with and a package should be uploaded to experimental with the necessary changes. Cheers, Emilio
