Hi, Am Montag, den 17.08.2009, 12:12 +1000 schrieb Simon Horman: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:16:19AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 16.08.2009, 19:36 +0100 schrieb Ganesh Sittampalam: > > > > Libraries that are newer in Debian will stay so, so we won?t be able to > > > > support the platform fully. Now we have these options: > > > > > > What is the long-term plan for this issue - will new instances of it be > > > allowed to arise, or will Debian allow the platform to catch up and then > > > not jump ahead again? > > > > I’m not sure if there is a consensus yet, so far not many developers > > have commented on the issue. > > > > Personally, I’m happy to give the platform the chance to catch up, but > > I’d always reserve Debian the right to jump when required for good > > reasons (e.g. new version of library needed by newer version of a > > program that we want, or bug in the libraries). > > Is there a reason that two versions of some libraries can't be > present in the archive - one to match the platform, and one that > is ahead of that? yes. Creating packages in Debian is far more involved than on hackage. Also, having two versions of a package without good reasons (such as the parsec or quickcheck cases) will likely be rejected by the ftp-masters. Last but not least Debian aims to make a selection for it’s users, so it’s actually a service not having multiple versions of the same package :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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