On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:45:43 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > [ please keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed to -release@ ] > > Dear RT, > > the geany-plugins package is a compilation of plugins for the geany IDE. > The current version in the archive (0.18) isn't compatible with the > geany version (0.19) in it (the plugins won't load). > Then there's an RC bug that incompatible geany and geany-plugins are co-installable. This needs to be fixed somehow, by adding Breaks on older -plugins in geany, and/or by restricting the plugin packages' dependency on geany. > A binNMU won't help due to new API in 0.19 :( > Thus the easiest solution would be upgrading geany-plugins to 0.19. > Here we have different options, and I'd like to know which you like more > ;) > > geany-plugins 0.19 ships 6 new plugins, one of which needs a yet > unpackaged (in Debian) library. > > >From the users point of view, it would be best to upload ctpl (the > missing library) and geany-plugins with all the new plugins enabled. > However I can understand that you won't like this solution (even if > geany-plugins and ctpl are already in ubuntu and working fine there). > > We could also disable the plugin that needs ctpl and only ship 5 new > ones. Or disable all of them and ship the same set as currently in the > archive. > > Thus my question: which of the three options would be ok from the RT > point of view and please our users most? > I don't think adding the new dependency is reasonable at this point. Cheers, Julien
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