Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?

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Subject: Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?
From: Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:18:33 +0100
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Le 12/12/2016 à 19:02, Pirate Praveen a écrit :
> Updating a library is a difficult task compared to packaging new
> libraries or applications.

With all the explanations in this thread, its logical. But it the
reverse of what I experimented in nearly all parts of Debian I've
been involved (C/Perl/Python/Java/...)

  I suppose these communities (js, nodejs, ...) do not generally have
test suites for their libraries...

  Regards,
    Vincent


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