Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 10:45:46PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> That's the problem, there should only be one of each major version (ie
> 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, etc.) Not each minor version increase. This isn't your
> fault, it's the fault of the libgtk maintainer, and it's causing you,
> other maintainers that link against libgtk and users lots, of problems.
That's what the libgtk maintainer HAD to do. The soname changes with each
'minor' release, breaking all apps compiled against it with each release.
The current situation isn't perfect, but that's a bug in dpkg, not in the way
the libgtk packages are made.
> I hope it gives them a wake up call.
He didn't WANT to do it this way. Look at the debian-devel archives right
after the slink freeze. It used to be a release-critical bug for slink.
He did what he had to do, as mandated by policy.
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