Re: Bug#161644: libarts

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

severity 161644 serious
thanks

Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> writes:

> severity 161644 wishlist
> stop

> Take this up with James Troup (elmo) he previously rejected the packages
> due to the splittage. As you can easily read from your own quote the

? It is possible to quote this e-mail ?

> reason for not including binaries in library packages is so that
> multiple versions can be installed at once. This _CAN NOT_ happen for
> libarts regardless of if the binaries are split out of the package. So
> leave my bug priorities alone.

> Quoting you quoting policy 11.3:

>     If your package has some run-time support programs which use the
>     shared library you must not put them in the shared library package.
>     If you do that then you won't be able to install several versions of
>     the shared library without getting filename clashes.

> That last sentence in my eyes at least renders the whole paragraph
> meaningless in libarts case since it can never have multiple versions
> installed. It won't work, period.

The libarts0/libarts1 transition prove that this is not true. May be you
intent to break again Debian when libarts will change to 2 ?

Christian