Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, depending on the details, uploading xerces27 during the KDE > transition might have made things *easier*... oh well. :)
/me experiences brain gears turning How's that? Because some packages could have switched from depending upon libraries that were tangled in the transition to libraries that weren't? Or more fundamentally, because transition xerces27 into testing doesn't make anything uninstallable since xerces25 and xerces26 are still there and then moving applications that depend upon xerces25 of xerces26 over to xerces27 results in the transition of xerces25 and xerces26 no longer making those applications uninstallable? Perhaps having uploaded xerces27 and getting gdal and friends to switch to it would have broken the link between icu/xerces and unixodbc, thereby allowing them to transition on their own. gdal wouldn't have been able to go, but it wouldn't have been keeping xerces out. Is that right, or am I still missing something? I didn't think this through far enough in my planning. I was just thinking that wedging xerces27 between icu and gdal would get it tangled up with the transition as well, forgetting that icu is, at present, not both a direct and indirect dependency of anything and also forgetting the effect of xerces27 not being in testing. I am now filing away that this type of situation may have consequences that aren't immediately obvious to me since I have no direct experience with dealing with the actual impact of these actions. It's remarkable how much experience guides intuition. --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]