-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi,
[ About the benefit of requiring a sourceful upload of reverse b-d, instead of providing the libgnutls-dev by the accurate package. ] Le 05/10/2014 12:35, Andreas Metzler a écrit : > On 2014-10-05 David Prévot <taf...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >>> GnuTLS 2 and 3 are not completely API compatible. And given that this >>> transition is basically finished […], I would like to keep the small >>> benefit of having this incompatibility reflected in the package name. >> Indeed, the benefit seems rather small compared to making all further >> gnutls transition more painful by forcing all of its reverse b-d to >> provide a sourceful upload instead of triggering a simple binNMU when >> possible. > > I think there is small misunderstanding: The fact that we now have > libgnutls28-dev does not mean that we will have matching versioned > development packages (libgnutls{30,31,31,etc}-dev) for the library > package (libgnutls{30,31,31,etc}) in later versions. There is no > reason why future gnutls transition should be hurt by the current naming of > the gnutl development package. I don’t deny there is a misunderstanding, but I’m not sure how small it is. I don’t get either the benefit of having “28” somewhere in the name to make it clear that the package is about GnuTLS 3 (or any later version). Anyway, documenting those concerns in the transition bug report since they don’t seem to have been raised before. Regards David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUMYe9AAoJEAWMHPlE9r08yQ0IAI7XDrlXTpzVmXl8gP/6FqAu nUfgaCPvfOLxPzK9VSRswLLPfzVmvQ3cWko7sEnA4lqD6Q3AhdETVEOwCXPu/qqT polrrU7btBBkoG7/2LL2g0nxMXOm6zof7MHsW590mgXS6e5e/GGUlF7WqKipasBf ZytxJyIHHeO1p1XZkQwfgTgDmTgdBSDIKrtseDYk+ElDkNWVM1ShP1gU2y/cCIVI tWJEUgKd6vyd6p9SrLpVZ2ymKLrhs/8QsoZsBzSCvQ63MgxV9kcbWJNN8UE0OOeJ xqGdcGT9QPxHSggHuBiaa+XfmGpZtomqGCV2gjqt3TPp2d0UF5Yv2U8WlDzpebw= =Qplw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org