First, I'm a user, not a maintainer. I'm in a debate with a package
maintainer that could be endless and so I'd like a your expertise to
help end it. The maintainer is
breaking his own dependant packages with every version change, and he
says that's the only way to do it. His reason for this is in the
README.Debian file below. From what I can gather, he uploads
claws-mail, and then waits for it come back to him via apt-get,
then he
tries to build claws-mail-extra-plugins. My suggestion to him was to
install claws-mail via dpkg -i and then build claws-mail-extra-plugins
and then upload all the packages at once. This way, he'd know
everything would build before he uploaded.