Brandon <winterknight@nerdshack.com> (11/09/2007): > >Yes, serious at least, but I'd even say “grave”: “renders package > >unusable” (by its dependencies) in reportbug. > > That is a bit of a stretch. It would not be unusable. The point of a library is to be used by its dependencies, by the packages built against it. If it is (not|no longer) usable by these rdepends, the package is unusable. > You can't really say "breaks unrelated packages" either, because they > would have a direct relation. I didn't say anything like that. > I was just wondering about how I would justify keeping the bug at RC > if the maintainer wanted to downgrade it. He is cooperative, and is > genuinely trying his best to maintain a good stable package, but I > like to plan ahead. I also thought it was odd that soname was barely > mentioned in debian policy, as it is so important. That may explain why libpkg-guide exists. The policy is a more general document. > I recommended to Patrick, the maintainer of guichan, that he writes to > this list to ask about how he should handle his package. Thanks for that. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois
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