Re: [RFC] Breaking britney2's backward compatibility
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 21:57:22 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> "Smooth updates"
> ----------------
>
> Obsolete binary packages in a configurable list of archive sections
> (currently "libs" and "oldlibs", although the latter is somewhat
> debatable) are not automatically removed when the source package is
> updated; instead they are kept in testing temporarily to ease
> transitions. At the end of each run, britney will attempt to remove any
> such packages she finds.
>
So this part worries me slightly, as it means there's a greater chance
of having programs in testing loading two incompatible versions of a
library. If it could be opt-in (with a 'keep xulrunner1.9.1' sort of
hint) I'd be a bit happier.
Then again maybe I'm overestimating the risk of this causing breakage, I
don't know...
Cheers,
Julien
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