#928380 libxcb-xinput-dev: Breaks with libxcb1-dev 1.12-1

Package:
libxcb-xinput-dev
Source:
libxcb
Description:
X C Binding, xinput extension, development files
Submitter:
Chris Angelico
Date:
2021-02-02 09:36:03 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#928380#5
Date:
2019-05-03 10:40:03 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Having the Debian Unstable repository available (even with a low priority) causes
libxcb-xinput-dev to be installable, but leaves the older libxcb1-dev from Debian
Stable. This results in compilation errors from any app that attempts to #include
the xinput headers, due to a version incompatibility.

The solution is to uninstall libxcb-xinput-dev, or to migrate far more packages
to the newer version (including upgrading libc).

The problem appears to be a simple packaging issue, where the dependency is shown
as simply "libxcb1-dev" with no version information attached. If it declared that
it required libxcb1-dev version 1.13.1-2, this would inform apt correctly.
#928380#10
Date:
2021-02-02 09:20:47 UTC
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Control: tag -1 moreinfo
Can you provide more details about the errors you were seeing?

Cheers,
Julien
#928380#17
Date:
2021-02-02 09:32:20 UTC
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From two years ago? I don't think I have any systems running that, any more.

ChrisA