On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:59:09PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 06:40:32PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: > > > søn, 30.05.2004 kl. 13.37 skrev Guus Sliepen: > > > I am planning to upload libgmime2 with just the Maintainer: field > > > changed, and a new libgmime2.1 package. However, there are also packages > > > in unstable for libgmime0 and libgmime1. As far as apt-cache rdepends > > > can tell me, there are no Debian packages depending on them, so I'm > > > inclined to send an email to ftp-master to have them removed. However, > > > if you know that there still are people using those Debian packages, > > > I'll continue maintaining them. > > > > I have no idea. Like you, anyone using this library is apparently doing > > it for their own projects, not for Debian. But if you want my opinion, > > you can almost certainly remove libgmime0. However, I wouldn't want to > > remove libgmime1 yet - at least not before sarge is released (with it), > > in any case, and maybe not even before people start thinking about > > removing libglib1.2 itself from Debian. It's difficult to be sure > > without user feedback, for sure. Maybe not even http//popcon.debian.org/ > > (seems to down at the moment) would help much here... > > ftp-master: please remove libgmime0 and libgmime0-dev from unstable.
Hrmz, is there any good reason to really have this many (4 until I just removed gmime0) versions of the same library in Debian? Only if it's very difficult to migrate to a next version, and there are a lot of reverse dependencies, it's IMHO sensible to have multiple versions. Otherwise, I stronly suggest to make the source package name 'gmime', and not change that while uploading new versions of the package, but instead filing bugs on reverse-depends to migrate. There are only 3 packages using a version of gmime, incidently, all are using the latest version already. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
