On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:38:27PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > The problem is not in gal, but in stable applications depending on it. > In fact, libgal is only intended to be used by gnumeric and evolution. > Even more, libgal is just developed for evolution, so if tomorrow > evolution needs a binary-incompatible change in libgal, it will be done, > no matter what applications would be broken because of this, so expect > to see this pace of major versions for a long time. As I said, libgal is > not a "normal" library in the sense that it's got a published API that > applications can rely on; it is just a shared code repository for > evolution and gnumeric. Ok you probably have a point there. Does this mean you think we should file a bug against all packages (except evolution and gnumeric) that use libgal? Although many people are suggesting keeping multiple versions of libgal in Debian, I think that's not really a Good solution. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net>
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