Re: Please allow liblicense 0.8-1 into testing

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> 
>> Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org> writes:
>>> liblicense 0.8-1 is a new ABI from upstream (who happens to be me).  It
>>> also fixes a serious bug, #493293 , that makes it fail to read some
>>> licenses and in the same files makes its write meaningless nonsense
>>> instead of a proper piece of license metadata.
>>
>> Is there any reason not to simply remove this lib from lenny, seeing
>> that it has no r-deps? The changes are pretty complex due to the fact
>> that 0.7.1 never made it to testing.
> 
> I'd prefer to be able to ship liblicense-cli with lenny, which does
> depend on liblicense3 (in 0.8-1).
> 
> But I'm okay with removing it from lenny outright.

removal hint added

Cheers

Luk