OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du mardi 14 avril 2009, vers 09:13, Robert Edmonds <edmo...@debian.org> disait :
> libprotobuf3 appears to be severely brain-damaged, as it prevents older
> versions of the library from being installed (and for no reason afaict):
> Package: libprotobuf3
> Version: 2.0.3-1
> Replaces: libprotobuf0, libprotobuf2
> Conflicts: libprotobuf0, libprotobuf2
> it probably should have been rejected at NEW, or by the sponsor who
> uploaded the package.
> edmo...@chase{0}:~$ who-uploads protobuf
> Uploads for protobuf:
> 2.0.3-1 to unstable: Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org>
> 2.0.2-1 to unstable: Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org>
> 2.0.1-1 to unstable: Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org>
> filed against source package protobuf as #523992.
Hi!
I don't see exactly what point you try to make here. From a technical
point of view, I see some advantages to handle this minor upgrade in the
same way as an ABI transition (the strongest one being to ensure that
the old packages do not lie around).
This can be of course discussed but I don't see exactly the point to
discuss it outside of the bug report, with the sponsor and
ftpmasters. And I don't see what exactly is the contribution of saying
that it is "severely brain-damaged". Will you yell at ftpmasters/mentors
each time you see that a package is not perfect?
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