On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:17:27PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > The gdal 1.11.2 package is Ubuntu from some time already, and they > didn't have these concerns. But that may be inherent to Ubuntu not being > as strict as Debian about these kind of issues. > > I'd hate having to wait for GDAL 2.0 and the SONAME bump that should > introduce before getting a newer gdal in unstable.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:12:12PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > If the dependency system allows to have gdal 1.11 and old rdeps, then > they must work. > If old rdeps and gdal 1.11 does not work together, the dependency system > must reflect that (for example by adding versionned Breaks in new gdal > against old rdeps). It just so happens I was on the receiving end of GDAL's ABI breakages with an in-house dependent package, I feel I have to post this link here: http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/versions/gdal.html This library has apparently been consistently horrible about compatibility, and it seems that it's high time that its SONAME, and consequently its package names, started changing in order to avoid harming its users. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
