This one time, at band camp, Noah Meyerhans said: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:36:13PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I kind of think the upload is already the 'signing off' (why would you > > upload something you didn't think would work? - not that it doesn't > > happen, but you see my point), but I tend to agree here - a higher > > standard should be enforced. I am not sure how to enforce this without > > making a lot more work for the RM's, though. > > I'm not saying that you're signing off on the claim that *your* package > will work. I'm saying that your upload won't break other packages that > *depend* on your package. Or, in the event that you do break > compatibility with the old version, you've worked with the maintainers > of whichever packages depend on your to insure that they will also make > updates to their packages to maintain compatibility. Gotcha. That makes sense. Similar to what you're saying below, IOW. > > I like it. I think making the dependencies go into volatile won't work, > > however - I am thinking of one of my packages here. clamav-milter uses > > libmilter - does this put all of sendmail into volatile? Same source > > package, after all. And at the lower level, of course, there's libc > > :) Or am I missing something, and you mean 'dependencies' not in > > the packaging sense, but in the databases used for those programs or > > something? > > You're thinking about it the other way around. ClamAV depends on > milter. A change in ClamAV doesn't necessitate a change in milter. > OTOH, if some package out the depends on ClamAV, then you'll need to do > work to make sure that package will continue to work. Since that > package may need an update to match some change in ClamAV, that package > must also go into the volatile section. It's similar to e.g. the > contrib section in that regard. Any packages that itself depends on a > package in contrib must also go in contrib. > > I hope that clarifies things a bit for you. 8^) Yes - I seem to have read all the dependencies in your proposal backwards :) Better now, and I agree. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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