Re: New guile packages
In article <[🔎] 19981209093054.A18795@gate.cks.com>, David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 09:23:23AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 23:59:41 -0800, David N. Welton wrote:
>> > Ok, these ought to fix the problem with linking against qthreads. I also
>> > dispensed with 'build-guile' and went with guile-config.
>>
>> Could you tell us the status of the __register_frame_info in libguile3 too?
>> I just did a quick check, and there doesn't seem to be a fixed version in
>> frozen or Incoming.
> libguile3 is deprecated and should be removed from the archive. It is
> a bug to depend on it.
> libguile4 is really the same package, but reflects the soname.
Why do we *have* to keep breaking backwards compatability like this?
Can't someone install a fixed libguile3? That would seem easier than
moving all applications to libguile3 (what about bugs perhaps
introduced by the move?). Plus, suppose the user has some stuff in
/usr/local/bin which uses libguile3.
Why do we remove old shlib packages all the time?
I almost think there should be an item in Policy that all *released*
shlib packages must be retained in the archive for at least 18 months
after they are *obsoleted*. Well... maybe not.... ;) But you get the
point.
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