Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> writes: > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> [2012-08-14 09:53]: >> To summarize, my feeling is that allowing the co-instability of >> liboctave-dev with all 3 versions of HDF5 brings clear advantages (less >> co-instability issues) and at the same time it won't break anything for >> people using the serial HDF5 version. People wanting to use the parallel >> versions will be allowed to do so; in the worst case they could be hit >> by the partial ABI-incompatibility, but it is still better than the >> current situation where we just forbid them from using the parallel >> version. > > I agree with your conclusion. What should we do now? Fill the RC bug > report and go ahead with the change in the master branch? I am not sure this issue is of RC severity, in my view it is even of wishlist severity. I would rather directly file a bug against release.debian.org asking for pre-approval, using the text that you wrote and attaching the patch. Then, if the Release Team agrees, we commit to master and upload to unstable. -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Maintainer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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