Re: Fixing the eel2 madness
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:54:34PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Because of various "small" ABI changes, it looks like *all* packages in
> sarge that depend on libeel2-2 don't work with the etch version. To fix
> that situation so late in the release process, I have added an
> appropriate Conflicts: field and uploaded it to unstable. This is
> 2.14.3-3.
Unblocked.
> Of course, the real solution is to change the SONAME correctly. Because
> the ABI seems to have changed in all (well, maybe all but one) GNOME
> releases from 2.8 to 2.16, I have added a release number corresponding
> to the GNOME version and uploaded it to experimental, which means future
> versions won't cause such trouble. This is 2.16.3-2.
> If the release team feels like it, I can upload the same fix in
> unstable, but it will require a handful of binNMUs for related packages.
I'd say we should get 2.14.3-3 into testing first to ensure we have a fix,
then we can consider a quick library transition afterwards, yes.
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