Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2016, 12:11 +0100 schrieb Michael Hanke: > Hi, > > out of curiosity: where is the harm in a "useless" alternative > dependency > that enables people to easily build backports without tinkering with > the > package? > > Michael > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Tobias Frost <t...@debian.org> > wrote: > > > Am Samstag, den 09.01.2016, 22:55 -0500 schrieb Yaroslav Halchenko: > > > > > > > > > but ok -- will list libpng-dev as the first and alternative > > > libpng12 > > > and will see how it goes > > > > > > > *sigh* ok, even if the libpng12-dev is superficious. (It creates > > more > > work, as I will file a bug to remove it once the transistion have > > started and you'll need another sourceful upload.) > > > > >
As lipng-dev is provided by libpn12-dev since ages, this makes no difference at all, even for backports. -- tobi
