Re: changelogs again (libc6 this time)

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:47:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > >  this is a non-trivial change.  Keeping Debian interoperable at the
> > >  binary level with other distributions is already difficult as it is[0],
> > >  the minimum I'd expect is at least being able to know *why*.
> > [snip]
> > 
> > I agree.
> > 
> > And another recent example:
> > 
> >  xfree86 (4.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> > [...]
> >    * debian/{*.shlibs,shlibs.local}: bumped versioning to >> 4.1.0, and added
> >      libXmuu to xlibs.shlibs
> 
> Bullshit, an entirely new upstream shared library was added to these
> packages; I'd like to know how else this is to be reflected in a shlibs
> file.

The xlibs shlibs file says:

libICE      6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libPEX5     6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libSM       6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libX11      6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXIE      6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXext     6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXft      1 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXi       6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXmu      6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXmuu     1 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXp       6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXpm      4 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXrender  1 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXt       6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
libXtst     6 xlibs (>> 4.1.0)

The libXmuu is newly introduced in 4.1, so that's obvious. But you didn't
include the reason why you increased the version requirement for the other
14 libraries.

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