On Tue Oct 28 11:15, Andrew Overholt wrote: > * Matthew Johnson <mjj29@debian.org> [2008-10-28 11:15]: > > I'm also still convinced we need to mandate the use of Class-Path: > > entries in manifests to avoid transitions in rdeps when you update > > your dependencies. > > This goes against the Fedora and JPackage guidelines, FWIW. > Yes, and I don't understand a. why they don't like it and b. how they solve the problem that if program A depends on library B and library B depends on library C that A needs to explicitly list C in it's classpath (which it shouldn't) and if B now adds a dependency on library D this causes a transition requiring a sourceful upload of A to add D to the classpath. This is a really bad thing. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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