Re: libraries being removed from the archive
Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> writes:
> IMHO we need to make an addition to policy stating that an old lib can
> not be removed from the archive until no other packages still depend on
> it.
So say I maintain foo. The source package produces two binary
packages, foo and libfoo1. Now, there's a new foo release, that
changes libfoo's soname. In the current scheme, I package the new
upstream release and upload foo and libfoo2; since there's no source
package for libfoo1, it eventually gets removed from unstable.
Are you proposing that (a) the ftpmasters not remove libfoo1, or (b)
that package maintainers of library packages are now compelled to
package the last version of foo's source providing libfoo1 separately,
potentially for multiple release cycles for a widely used library?
Option (b) sounds problematic to me...
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