Hi *, During one of the talks of Debconf (I think it was about shared library packaging) there was a complaint that tracking upstreams SONAME changes means that your library package will end up in NEW each time it really changed.
I'd like to suggest fixing the scripts to only flag packages as new if it isn't obviously just one of these SONAME changes. As I don't really know katie etc. I don't know how complicated this is so I don't just start to work on it know but ask if it would make sense to others. Basically a library package should be regarded as an update if a) the package is already in the archive or b) the package name starts with lib and matches a known package up to a "-" and the remainder is just -[0-9]+-[0-9]+ after stripping known suffixes (like c102 etc.) Comments? Torsten
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