Accepted xorg 6.8.2-11 (source)

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:34:30AM +1000, John Skaller wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 07:46 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> > > >    * gcc4 transition: change xlibmesa-glu to libglu1-xorg, ditto -dbg, and
> > > >      xlibmesa-glu-dev to libglu-dev-xorg.
> > > 
> > > How are OpenGL applications supposed to specify their build depends on
> > > GL and GLU headers? There are quite a lot of packages universe which
> > > FTBFS because xlibmesa-glu has been renamed. I see that build
> > > depending on libglu-dev-xorg seems to provide both GL and GLU headers,
> > > so many packages will build again.
> 
> Can't such changes be handled in transition with a dummy package
> that just forwards a dependency (possibly also providing
> symlinks to remap the actual build environment namespaces)?

Er, that's what we're already doing right now, by having
libglu1-xorg-dev Provides: xlibmesa-glu, libglu-dev-xorg.  I have to
admit that you rather lost me at the symlink bit, though.