On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:12:19 -0200 Herbert Fortes (hpfn) <h...@ig.com.br> wrote:
> > > > "In case several development versions of a library exist, you may need > > > to use dpkg's Conflicts mechanism" > > > > I think the Policy means this between versions of the same library > > (eg. your libqb6-dev and a later libqb7-dev). > > > > But anyway, this is a more broader problem: there are now two libraries > > named libqb in Debian. Currently we provide libqb0 and libqb-dev > > packages, you provide libqb6 and libqb6-dev and we have a guarranteed > > file name conflict in the dev packages. It's already confusing, but > > there's no telling when the package names themselves will clash. The > > absolutely best solution would be persuading an upstream to change the > > library name. Webcamoid seems to be the newer project, therefore its Qb > > library might have seen less use, so I don't find it unreasonable to > > approach its maintainer with this problem. > > I was thinking about talk to the upstream. But it > will take more time to solve the situation. > > What about the bug ? > I received a quick response from the upstream. The lib will be libWebcamoid. I can change the name with patches for this release. Will be in NEW and the .symbols file will be tested again in 'experimental'. But the bug can be closed with a new Debian revison. I will do the upload untill tomorrow. regards, -- Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn)
