On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 10:45:54PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:46:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Peter Palfrader (weasel@debian.org) [040328 17:40]: > > > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > If something is split off a package, the package has to depend on the > > > > new package until after the next stable release. This is the only way to > > > > prevent breakages on upgrades, (e.g. with the Debian 3.0 uucp package > > > > and the Debian 3.1 sendmail package). > > > > > I think this is a good idea. Can we add this to the policy? > > > > Yes, I think we should. (And I consider this to be a policy-change > > that we can do before release of sarge, w/o breaking too many > > packages.) > > Is it really a policy change ? As far as I know all major packages > splits had followed the above rule, and policy doesn't seem to document > upgrade requirement between stable releases at all. It has been said that the Policy Manual is supposed to document existing practice... -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot branden@debian.org | support the government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- anonymous
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