Re: epoch bump for babl and gegl libraries
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:21:37AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> The GNOME team intend to add an epoch to the babl and gegl libraries,
> so I'm checking for consensus (Debian Policy §5.6.12.1). As usual with
> epochs, this is a bad situation that I am trying to mitigate as much as
> possible, rather than anything elegant or exemplary.
>
> babl and gegl are 2D image libraries used by GIMP and GNOME Photos.
> Historically, versions of these packages were shipped by the third-party
> deb-multimedia.org apt repository. That would have been fine, except that
> the maintainer(s) of deb-multimedia.org added an epoch to their versions.
Another option: as these libs are used only by gimp and gnome-photos, you
can add Breaks for the target version range. This would be ugly but will
make the problem go away in a release or two as the old libs become
non-installable.
Meow.
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