Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 11:08:34PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote:
> 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.
That's why we have shlibs deps. Read the packaging manual. He/she needs to
setup the shlibs to be specifically version dependant as in
"libgtk1.1 (= 1.1.15-4)". This is _exactly_ why we have them. The only
reason for doing the way they are is to allow lots of releases and not
break leave anything broken. It is obvious however, that fewere releases
into unstable with a better versioning would be much better. I think
most would agree (users and maintainers) that they would rather things
break and know what to do about it than to wonder which of the 6
versions they are going to need.
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