On 11/02/2017 10:40 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
If we expect to make Debian and GNU/Linux universal we have to keep that people don't want to buy a new hardware to switch from Windows or Mac to GNU/Linux. The regular user should be the target, not the hacker. Sane 1.0.27 should work as 1.0.25 for the end user without any configuration changes because if we respect x.y.z versioning this is a minor release.
I have thoroughly explained the reasoning behind the changes and what exactly happened and why it happened. Could I therefore please ask you to just stop give out your recommendations, this is really getting annoying. Library transitions happen all the time and it's up the responsibility of the downstream projects to act accordingly and rebuild their packages if necessary. And, no, this particular issue is not the deciding the factor which keeps Linux back from its breakthrough on the PC desktop. Please stop this, really! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
