Re: Bug#385793: -dev packages should not be architecture all
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 09:06:28PM +0200, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > yes, if the tetex maintainers, the gtk maintainers and others would do
> > the same as you do now, we even had longer times of uninstallability.
>
> Uninstallability on few architectures, that have much more important
> problems than that. And I'm not uploading every other day.
> Plus, there are much less reverse dependencies on xulrunner than there
> are on gtk.
>
> > It's not an archive problem, please keep the project in mind, not just
> > the package.
>
> It *IS* an archive problem. It shouldn't put packages from different
> versions of the same source package in a single Packages file.
> That is, if it references version 1.8.0.4-1 of libxul0d, it shouldn't
> refer to version 1.8.0.5-2 of libxul-dev at the same time.
It's even in the BTS
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246992
Mike
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