Hi, sorry and thanks for pointing me to my fault! I did check git, found some issues committed but never uploaded, and I probably forgot about it (well, I didn't forget, but after cloning the repo, and copy-pasting the changes... the deletion was
overridden). thanks a lot! Gianfranco (who just uploaded a new version) Il Domenica 10 Aprile 2016 0:16, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> ha scritto: Control: reopen -1 Control: tags -1 - pending On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 20:18:13 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > control: tags -1 pending patch > >I don't think this was the right fix, because this kind of Recommends > >is wrong in two accounts. First the module using this shared library is > >shipped in the libslang2-modules, so the dependency is useless here. And > >second, hardcoding the shared library name means each time the SONAME > >changes this package has to be patched manually (making transitions > >harder as binNMUs do not work here), when dpkg-shlibdeps has all the > >required information to infer the correct dependency by using > >-dRecommends for example. > I agree with you, unfortunately I lack of time to give to each package > for this transition, and the NMU was enough, even if delaying the issue > to the next transition :) > > thanks for checking, I should have spent a minute more and avoided this > NMU, but I was trying to be safe, instead of being sorry :) > >Please use the attached patch to properly fix this so that we don't > >need to touch this on the next transition! :) > Not providing a libpng16-dev library, but only a libpng-dev one, will > probably avoid the ~100 NMU we had to do for this one :D Unfortunately it seems the patch didn't get applied afterall? ,--- $ dpkg -s libslang2 | egrep '(Version|Recommends)' Version: 2.3.0-2.2 Recommends: libpng16-16 `--- Thanks, Guillem
