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Re: release policy changes



On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:09:26AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:

> Rationale:
> Some libraries are provided multiple in Debian, IIRC e.g. libz. That is
> bad from general QA (as usually this is just an old version, and normale
> bug fixes don't go in), and especially bad if there is a security update
> necessary.

Do you have any examples of packages doing this with libz that don't
already have bugs filed?  I've been filing bugs when I notice people
doing this

FWIW this is already against policy so people shouldn't be doing it in
the first place.

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