Re: Bug#161644: libarts
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:27:53PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > 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 ?
It was discussed on irc so there is no e-mail to quote. If you want you
can look at the upload email to see that I indeed uploaded a split to hell
arts that achieved nothing but making you happy... which was rejected.
> The libarts0/libarts1 transition prove that this is not true. May be you
> intent to break again Debian when libarts will change to 2 ?
libartsc0[1] sover is intended to never change and why it wasn't split out
earlier I do not know. There is only one 2k shell script included in the
libartsc0 package, splitting that out would be insane. Also, libarts will
likely change with every major new release of kde. Yes, this will break
all old binaries depending on it but that is beside the point since the
new version of KDE will break all the old apps as well since apps using
libarts directly are native kde apps and rely on all the other kde
libraries also. I find it very unlikely that KDE will ever get to a
point where multiple versions can be installed into the same tree at the
same time. If you want to take up the challenge by all means do so.
Thanks,
Chris
[1] Non KDE apps are supposed to only use libartsc so that they never
have a breakage problem. Previous to debian's KDE 3 packages libartsc
was packaged with libarts thus causing the breakage among packages
such as xmms, libsdl, when I split out the library. From now on
however this breakage should be minimized since libartsc has no
reason to ever bump sover afaik.
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