On lun., 2012-05-14 at 20:45 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hello Yves-Alexis, > > Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> (14/05/2012): > > This is just a friendly ping about #668806. I think it's safe to say > > that we won't squeeze Xfce 4.10 in Wheezy, but at least paving the way > > for Wheezy+1 upgrades would be better. > > as discussed on IRC, I think having “traditional” transitions would be > the easiest for everyone, we have tools to handle them. Worst case, you > don't actually need to bump the soname for one release; then you just > don't bump it, and done. I don't see any drawback with this approach. > > And thanks for the friendly ping. > Ok, since it seems things are a bit unclear, we can't really use the traditional (soname) way because we would need to split the binary and the lib and then we might have: xfce4-foo-plugin built against libxfce4panel.so.1 (Xfce 4.6) xfce4-bar-plugin built against libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3 (Xfce 4.8) with both lib packages installed. But we can only have one binary xfce4-package installed (4.8), and at runtime, xfce4-foo-plugin won't load in xfce4-panel 4.8. So we do need to have stricter dependencies than soname here. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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