#include <hallo.h> Branden Robinson wrote on Thu Nov 01, 2001 um 02:53:07PM: > > This is getting absurd. > > What is so offensive about it? Means a second major change. And all this only because only one central package cannot be fixed in a proper way. > > > Otherwise, you stand an excellent change of rendering your users' > > > programs useless with unresolved symbol errors when they try to run > > > them. > > You know any volunteers? Debian needs to be guarded about telling > upstream developers when and how to stablilize their interfaces. They How often did that stuff change? 20 times? 50 times? What are we talking about? Just three libs, using less than 50kB space. I think you should know anyways when a major change may be happened (even without extra testing). > are (presumably) part of the Free Software community with whom we made > our Social Contract. Oh please, they should learn to make compatible software. Such situation is just imaginable in many parts of the software scene, why here? > I'd say the very existence of libgnomeprint15 and libgal206 (or whatever Well, I think you will be an old man when XFree86-206 is released. This comparison ist not realistic looking ath the work needed for depending packages. > it's up to today), are strong arguments FOR the recently ratified Policy > amendment that permits omission of shared versions. Please? We could also exclude all architectures which cannot link static code into shared libs. Would make our life much easier, don't you think so? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- "The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris" (from the man-page for perl).
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