Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 02:04:52AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Joey Hess writes:
> > Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* packages
> > > every time python* is mentioned? :P
> >
> > Actually I'm more reminded of the perl* packages and the complete mess
> > that followed. And I keep expecting to see the same set of problems
> > affect python.
>
> I'd like to see a way how to ease transitions between major version of
> "basic" packages. It is an problem, if accumulated transitions
> prohibit the migration of packages to testing. libgdbm recently broke
> the migrations,
Actually, gdbm was pretty easy. The only packages that had problems were
ones that depended on libgdbmg1-dev, and the reason that that took a
while to resolve was not because of gdbm but because openldap2 was
having problems at the time. I'd say it was a well-handled transition.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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