Re: Having a binary package in two source packages
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:41:31PM +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to ship the same binary packages in two source packages
> across two distributions?
This situation can occur, but should be transitional and short. The
archive will let the highest version numbered package supersede the old
one, but then an upload of the other source package, will get rejected
because there's already a newer version number.
So, the superseded package's source package should be modified to no
longer ship the obsolete binary package.
> A concrete example would be a tools package which can be built from two
> major upstream releases that need to be kept in the distribution for
> the shared libs:
> short term:
> - unstable/testing:
> * gstreamer0.8 source package:
> - libgstreamer0.8 binary package
> - gstreamer-tools
> - experimental:
> * gstreamer0.9 source package:
> - libgstreamer0.9 binary package
> - gstreamer-tools
Different suites, no problem.
> long term:
> - unstable/testing:
> * gstreamer0.8 source package:
> - libgstreamer0.8 binary package
> * gstreamer0.10 source package:
> - libgstreamer0.10 binary package
> - gstreamer-tools
If gstreamer0.8 doesn't build gstreamer-tools anymore, that's ok.
If it does, it's a bug, in a way release critical because it'd prevent
security updates for gstreamer0.8 once testing becomes stable. In
practice, it isn't that urgent to solve.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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