Re: Freeze exception: net6, obby, gobby
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:27:58AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > > obby changes:
> > > * Adopt dpatch:
> > > - Add a patch to retry IPv6 if it's unavailable.
> > Obby also includes changes to the dependencies of libobby-0.4-dev. Why does
> > the libnet6-1.3-dev dependency need to change so frequently? If it actually
> > needs to be changed so often, doesn't that mean the dependency will be wrong
> > on a simple rebuild of the package?
> Well, obby is a library relying heavily on templates. As the newer obby
> retries on IPv6, which is specified in the header, it depends on the new
> parameter introduced with the net6 upload. Thus the new tighter dependency.
> I don't see why the dependency should be wrong on a simple rebuild,
> though.
Because on a simple rebuild, someone may be building against a different
version of net6?
> > > gobby changes:
> > > * Fix mime type mapping.
> > > * Lack of avahi-daemon now fails silently instead of a verbose message
> > > confusing the user. Zeroconf is a `nice to have' but in no means
> > > required.
> > I don't see that a freeze exception is justified here.
> Well, it's also a rebuild against current net6 and obby, and as the
> former two are mostly template libraries the changes only get
> instanciated in the final application which provides the selector
> template argument, which is Gobby.
> Thus the changes in net6 and obby are not visible until Gobby is
> rebuilt, and as the two changes are annoying I fixed them on the way.[1]
Mmm, ok. Well, even if gobby isn't unblocked, it would be possible to fix
the template lib bit (gah) with binNMUs in testing. I'll take another look
at the gobby in unstable anyway, and let you know.
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