Default libjpeg-dev in oneiric

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:13:49PM -0500, Kate Stewart wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 17:54 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
> > CCing ubuntu-devel so people are aware of the issue

> > Due to the accidental autosync, we pulled in a libjpeg8-dev that
> > provides libjpeg-dev.  Should we revert that one change (not provide
> > libjpeg-dev in libjpeg8) or should we try to do the transition?  There
> > are a number of incomplete transitions ATM (libnotify, libssl, libav,
> > boost1.4.6, and a few more with ~10 packages each).

> > Attached are a list of rdepends affected.
> ...ouch.

> Given we'll be putting out the A3 release next week, and I don't believe
> this update and transition is essential, my preference would be to
> revert it for now,  and then after A3's out,  assess if if makes sense
> to pull it in and manage the transition, or wait until P-series for this
> one.   

> Given all the stuff about to land for A3 and Feature Freeze almost upon
> us, it seems a bit risky to add this in,  esp. with folks going on
> vacation right now.

> What do others think?

I agree, best to back this out.  Micah, will you upload the necessary
change?  (Sooner better than later, so we don't drift too much while
libjpeg8-dev is the default?)

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