Please, merge dbg packages into one

thank you for your bug report, could you use a provides on the previous binaries too?

Done. I must admit that I do not really understand why "Provides" is needed:

- Conflicts/Replaces will handle the transition, uninstalling the two binary packages (python-gnomecanvas-dbg and python-gconf-dbg)

- if we look at their reverse depends:
$ apt-cache rdepends python-gnomecanvas-dbg python-gconf-dbg
python-gnomecanvas-dbg
Reverse Depends:
  python-gnomecanvas
  python-gnome2-dbg
python-gconf-dbg
Reverse Depends:
  python-gnome2-dbg
  python-gconf

So, all rdepends are in the same source package, removing the dependency. Is that only for apt-get/aptitude transitionning (that is to say, he might, depending on which order he process the packages, uninstalling old python-gnomecanvas because of missing dependency without seing that new python-gnomecanvas not depends on it?)

BTW, change available in the bzr branch.

> I must admit that I do not really understand why "Provides" is needed

it's not strictly required but doesn't cost a lot and is better, you could have packages out of ubuntu depending on it and apt special case the Conflicts,Replaces,Provides combinaison which makes upgrades easier to calculate

thank you for your work there

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-python - 2.27.1-0ubuntu2

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gnome-python (2.27.1-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * Remove python-gnomecanvas-dbg and python-gconf-dbg packages and merge
    their contents into python-gnome2-dbg (LP: #384236)

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:02:47 +0200