Re: Transitions [WAS: Re: SpatiaLite 4.2.1 and the wider spatialite family]
On 05/29/2015 08:20 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> But we first need to get qgis 2.8.2 out of NEW. Last time it took 6
>> months, hopefully it won't take that long this time.
>>
>
> Wouldn't it be better to change the 2.8.2 package so it no longer
> specifies the patch version?
> Eg libqgis-server2.8 instead of libqgis-server2.8.2
>
> This would save us a lot of waiting for the new queue when there is an
> update and save the ftp-masters time for other packages...
I prefer to stick to Policy §8.1 despite there being no other reverse
dependencies for the QGIS libraries and it being "should" requirement.
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-runtime
Diverging from the Policy to work around NEW queue processing
deficiencies is not a good idea in my opinion.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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