On Mon, 04 Jun 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:29:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I agree that the benefits are worth the deal, but we should make clear > > that the price to pay for these benefits is a continuous effort from the > > maintainer. Therefore it should not be used by maintainers not aware of > > its subtleties. > > Considering the number of bugs I see because of maintainers who don't notice > they need to change package names due to upstream soname changes, or who > routinely fail to bump their shlibs when new symbols are added, I think > there is definitely room here for a recommended solution for maintainers > that aren't watching the subtleties, even without trying to bump > dependencies based on API extensions.
Would you care to elaborate? (What would you recommend? How do you expect it to improve the situation with those maintainers?) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
