Hi, On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 14:19 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:06:22PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Kevin Rosenberg wrote: > > >> I think that's contention, the difference in opinion between the > >> package maintainer and some users about what software Debian should > >> provide. > > > Well, if we advise users to compile their stuff on their own > > something is broken. If we can not provide the latest upstream > > version of a certain end user application because we are missing > > some underlying libraries (for whatever reason) we IMHO failed > > in supporting our users. > > I absolutely do not agree that this is a hard rule. If the libraries are > unsupportable, it is a disservice to our users to pretend that we are > supporting them by including them in a release. > > Currently, the packages that are asking for wx2.8 are almost all available > and releasable in earlier versions, built against wx2.6. Uploading wx2.8 to > unstable implies that it's suitable for apps to build against, which by all > accounts it is not. Maybe an upload to experimental would be appropriate then? William
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