Re: glib destabilization and ways forward
Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 17:02 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
>>
>> > 2) Decide that glib can migrate into testing, with the particular change
>> > of checking key values reverted to its pre-2.12.5 behavior, since this
>> > is a destabilizing change in the Debian context.
>>
>> This looks to be the best option since it preserves the backward
>> compatibility while also brings the bugfixes of the new release on
>> Etch. I think we should keep on mind that other applications can also
>> sufer from same problem as GNUCash does and there's no time to us to
>> detect them.
>
> Incidentally, while this is outside my specific purview as gnucash
> maintainer, I think that the *individual* changes made to glib should be
> *individually* checked, to see whether they *individually* fix RC bugs,
> and that documentation should be presented before any request to
> transition glib into testing is made.
Well, bugs are bugs and I don't think we should be too hard on this. I
think that changes that does change the library behaviour should be
avoided.
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