Re: libkpathsea transition
On 29.08.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
Hi all,
> > Further transitions
> > ===================
> > Please don't do.
> >
> > Any further transition has the potential to make it even harder to bring
> > packages to testing, as this makes the barrier for packages to go to
> > testing even higher.
>
> Would it be acceptable to upload tetex-bin_3.0 with the binary
> packages libkpathsea4(-dev), if at the same time we make sure that
> libkpathsea3 is still available? We could drop the "Provides:
> libkpathsea-dev" from libkpathsea4-dev, so that no packages
> accidently gets compiled against the new library.
>
Hmm, wasn't it the case, that the old libkpathsea3 implements the new
TDS, while libkpathsea4 understands the new one? I.e. a program
linked with libkpathsea3 won't work with tetex 3.0? Or am I totally
broken?
H.
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