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Re: guava-libraries 18?



On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
There is another point worth discussing I think. When we want to fork a
package foo 1.0 because the version 2.0 is incompatible, do we:

1. duplicate the package foo as foo-1 and upgrade foo to the version 2.
Every reverse dependency that doesn't work with the version has to be
updated to use the new package foo-1.

2. fork and upgrade the package foo as foo-2. The package that need the
new version depend on foo-2 and the other remain unchanged.


I agree that solution 1 is better. It's counter intuitive that guava-libraries-18 could actually have version 19 of the library. Also a package name without a version number within it e.g. guava-libraries, in general should track the latest version that has been packaged and incorporated within Debian.


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