Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 28, 2000
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 11:10:22AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > I am aware of that, sure. The problem is that somebody said on -devel,
> > that there are differences between libreadline version 2 and 4 that
>
> Who said that and what are exactly the differences?
I don't remember who said it and I don't know the exact differences. It
does not really matter though.
> > can't be dealt with by recompiling. So every time we just recompile
> > a package against libreadline4 we risk breaking that package.
>
> So why did we then move libreadline4 to section base for potato and
> libreadlineg2 to oldlibs? How many package may be broken in the archive
> because of this? Where do you risk breacking that package if you
> recompiled it and test it?
Okay - but who will test it? I don't use it and I have no idea how testing
would be done.
> > And this is not the right time for such experiments...
>
> So we should still stick with libraries from the section oldlibs? When
> is the right time for experiments?
The right time for such experiments is when you upload to unstable. Not
frozen.
IMHO
Torsten
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Torsten Landschoff Bluehorn@IRC <torsten@debian.org>
Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member
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