#872265 please drop transitional package libpcap-dev

Package:
libpcap
Source:
libpcap
Submitter:
Holger Levsen
Date:
2017-09-29 20:51:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#872265#5
Date:
2017-08-15 13:19:22 UTC
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usertags + transitional

Please drop transitional package libpcap-dev for Buster, which according to
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libpcap-dev was even a transitional package
in Wheezy.

Thanks for maintaining libpcap!
#872265#10
Date:
2017-09-12 05:47:13 UTC
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If dropping the package is not desirable, please mark
the package Multi-Arch: foreign to satisfy other packages
that build-depend on libpcap-dev.

Alternatively, making libpcap-dev the primary development package would be
beneficial, avoiding this situation.
#872265#15
Date:
2017-09-25 19:39:45 UTC
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2017-09-12 07:47 Hugh McMaster:

Yes please, bug #820829 also asks for the same thing.

Would it help if we prepare an NMU for this?


Cheers.
#872265#20
Date:
2017-09-29 11:18:53 UTC
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Sorry for the delay, I will hopefully have time to tackle this this
coming week-end.
#872265#25
Date:
2017-09-29 20:48:47 UTC
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Hi Romain,

2017-09-29 13:18 GMT+02:00 Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>:

The solution that Helmut proposed in #820829 about making libpcap-dev
Arch:any is the more straightforward, without waiting for
reverse-depends to move to the other package.

There are still more rdeps of libpcap-dev than libpcal0.8-dev:

$ build-rdeps --old libpcap-dev | grep ^Found
Found a total of 96 reverse build-depend(s) for libpcap-dev.

$ build-rdeps --old libpcap0.8-dev | grep ^Found
Found a total of 84 reverse build-depend(s) for libpcap0.8-dev.


Cheers.