No libsphinxclient Package in xenial

[Hajo Locke]

Currently there is no libsphinxclient Package in xenial. This Package is needed to compile further Clientapplications for Sphinxsearch.
The Package sphinxsearch-2.2.9 in xenial only produces the sphinxsearch deb.

for comparison: In trusty the sphinxsearch sourcepackage was creating 5 deb Packages, among these packages were the needed libsphinxclient and libsphinxclient-dev

Somebody removed this packages from sourcepackage in xenial and currently there is no replacment.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Looked a bit into this and it seems like the libsphinxclient-packages were part of an Ubuntu-delta in 2.0.4-1.1ubuntu1 and 2.0.4-1.1ubuntu2 (see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sphinxsearch/+publishinghistory for an overview). Then, during the development of Ubuntu 16.04, version 2.2.9-1 was synced from Debian and the delta was dropped.

I couldn't find a sync request bug report or more details on why these binary packages were dropped when a newer version was synced. doko, seems like you did the sync, so I've taken the liberty of subscribing you to this issue in case you have some more details about this issue. :)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Seems that nobody cared on Debian side
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563205

feel free to fix the Debian bug, and then Ubuntu will gain them again.

G.

[Hajo Locke (hajo-locke)]

I hoped that package maintainer could investigate this issue to improve quality of OS, not the enduser.