Re: changelogs again (libc6 this time)
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:38:58PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> So the maintainer is supposed to write an extremely long changelog yet not
>> mention why he bumped the version in shlibs and thus affected more than a
>> thousand packages, and instead leave it to the others to read hundreds or
>> thousands of lines of upstream changelog and figure it out? Bah.
> BECAUSE A NEW SHARED LIBRARY EXISTS IN THE PACKAGE, YOU GIBBERING MORON.
If that's the only reason then you only need the versioned dependency for
that particular library, not everything.
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