Brandon schrieb:
Severity: serious
Justification: makes package unusable (by its dependencies)
bumping SONAMES is a good thing for often needed packages and if
upstream provides SONAME support, I will include it.
That is good.
The current solution (with conflicts) is okay.
No, it is not. You break every package that depends on guichan every
time you upgrade. Fixing this is too much to ask of those maintainers.
You have forced balder2d and sear out of testing.
I have asked debian mentors about this last month. I sent you a link to
the thread archive a while ago. Here it is again, in case you didn't
get around to reading it:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/09/msg00223.html
They recommended that bugs such as this be kept as serious or grave.
I think the best way to fix this would be to only include a static
library. It is sort of like washing your hands of the issue. I would
also recommend not upgrading the version more than once a year, unless
a new upstream version fixes a glaring bug.
If compiling statically, depending packages will still break when the
API changes, and it has changed before. I am not sure how acceptable
this is. You could fix it by following upstream's recommendation, which
would equate to not having a guichan package at all. Depending programs
would instead include the guichan source.
If you need advice on what to do next, I recommend writing to the
debian-mentors mailing list. You can learn more here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/
-Brandon
Good morning,
please stop now changing every hour the severity, that's kind of playing
and stops us from work.
If you read for what is the testing and unstable pool, then you would
know, that such kind of things are OK, because we don't break anything
with the new package names and if a author doesn't upgrade his package
after some weeks, then it is his problem.
Michael Koch (sear maintainer) is my sponsor (he's a DD) and he knows
exactly every upgrade and in his opinion it's the best solution for guichan.
If you want a very clear pool, stop using testing and unstable and use
Debian Stable (Etch).
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Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards,
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