Re: Package maintainer script policy.

To: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Cc: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Package maintainer script policy.
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 05 Aug 1998 15:19:52 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87yat3npue.fsf@nevermore.csres.utexas.edu>
In-reply-to: Raul Miller's message of "Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:24:20 -0400"
References: <"8CmxH.A.mxH.6yRx1"@murphy> <[🔎] 87vhoad4p3.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com> <[🔎] 19980803012759.30454@test.legislate.com> <[🔎] 19980802223406.B11319@kitenet.net> <[🔎] 19980803071630.27489@test.legislate.com> <[🔎] 87hfztfkmw.fsf@femto.dyn.ml.org> <[🔎] 19980804060721.27581@test.legislate.com> <[🔎] 874svsexl7.fsf@femto.dyn.ml.org> <[🔎] 19980805152420.62999@test.legislate.com>

Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:

> That's what comes from trying to do too much in one upgrade.
> 
> We should have had an intermediate release point where we had a
> libreadline2 that provided both /lib and /lib/libc5-compat instances of
> libc5's readline.  

I thought people were supposed to be able to skip versions entirely.
Say going from bo->slink.  If so, then this wouldn't have helped at
all.

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