On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:25:19PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:10:38AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > To stop a package being upgraded automatically, you can change the > > package name. > [snip] > > I don't really see any reason why the same approach that is used for > > shared library ABIs will not also work for any other ABI. > > for packages as small as bogofilter polluting the package name space > like that is not really worth it, especially since the change is so > small. Straw man. It's no smaller than some libraries, and probably doesn't change as frequently. And it's not polluting the namespace, it's remaining within its *own* namespace. No unrelated package should ever use a name like "bogofilter3" when there is a "bogofilter" package. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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