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Re: Bug#712688: transition: gdal



On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 17:16:03 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 04:27:41PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > BTW, without annoying all of you with a so looooooong history about 
> > this issue, I'm going to introduce a new libgdal1h binary package (h means hidden, better 
> > suggestions are welcome :)), with a new SONAME libgdal.1h to manage a decent migration
> > to the new flavor. This will sacrifice third-parties sw compatibility, but
> > well, who cares? It would be break anyway.
> > 
> 
> Maybe a better choice in this specific case would be introducing a new
> binary package (libgdal1h) that Conflicts/Breaks against libgdal1 and provides 
> the usual library with the usual name/soname. Of course, that will force a lot of bNMUs 
> and an explicit unblocking set to complete the transition properly. Make sense?
I must admit from your mails I don't really understand what your plan is.
Do the packages currently in experimental follow that plan?

Thanks,
Julien

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