Bug#878941: RFS: sane-backends/1.0.27-1~experimental3
On 10/22/2017 10:21 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Yeah, Jörg wasn't happy about Ubuntu's (my) decision either but I
> didn't think it was good for Ubuntu to keep shipping an outdated git
> snapshot of sane-backends.
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends
Well, if there are so many people in Ubuntu relying on this package,
it might be a good idea to step up and help the Debian maintainer of
the package.
sane-backends isn't quite a trivial package and the package was
unmaintained in Debian for quite some time. Joerg adopted the package
and fixed many issues it had. Now reading through the comments in the
Launchpad bug report is very daunting, lots of nasty comments like
"This is not a bug IMHO, renaming the package is "operator error",
and an insane decision."
and
"How can ubuntu make such mistakes? I hope a patch comes immediately,
because for a new release is very shameful!"
I feel like Joerg deserves an apology. He received lots of thrashing
even though he kept the 1.0.27 version in experimental to avoid such
issues. Yes, he (and me, too) overlooked this particular issue with
the package rename (although there was #870078), but I think that
could have been communicated better.
> For Ubuntu 17.10, it looks like the best solution now is to add a
> transitional package since the Provides didn't work. But for 18.04 we
> could probably rename the package back to libsane since it doesn't
> look like there is any need to rename the package (considering there
> are third-party debs out there).
I think we should make a list to see how many third-party packages
are actually affected. I don't think it's acceptable to force
staying at a certain package name due to certain third party
software. Should we really keep such kludges around forever?
Adrian
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