Comment 3 for bug 701471

This just looks like a normal library update. The Debian maintainer did bump the soname and also renamed the packages properly (see http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/libevent). So in that sense it's not a separate source and separate -dev package, so while you can install the actual libraries side-by-side, the 1.4 library would be NBS after the sync, and we would be forced to rebuild everything against 2.0.

So the main question is whether the reverse dependencies can be built against and work with 2.0?

-- natty/main build deps on libevent-dev:
memcached
nfs-utils
php5
transmission

-- natty/universe build deps on libevent-dev:
beanstalkd
bitlbee
dnsproxy
farpd
forked-daapd
gearmand
getstream
honeyd
infon
ladvd
libdnsres
lua-event
memcachedb
museek+
mysql-proxy
pgbouncer
picviz
prelude-manager
python-event
python-gevent
scanssh
swordfish
tmux
tor
trickle
unworkable