Hello Berger, Mattia, On Sat 09 Feb 2019 at 09:30PM +01, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 01:21:36PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> wlroots is only in experimental and is pre-1.0, however. So we probably >> shouldn't demand proper transitions from its maintainers. > > This is not about transitions though. It's about being sure wlroots > maintainer know what it means to track ABI and they understand their > importance, and know about the tooling Debian has to properly deal with > these metters. > >> Birger, could you add a comment in d/control, saying that the versioned >> dependency is just a workaround to help users of Debian experimental >> avoid a broken window manager, and in the future it will be removed in >> favour of relying on dpkg-shlibdeps? > > May I instead suggest a new, proper, wlroots update? If this is what > I'm thinking, it means 0.3-1 broke over 0.2-1, and that is a bug that > I'd be filing as serious if I found it myself. > Happy to properly check, since this is a simple library I should find > the time for this. I don't think we should allow problems with wlroots in experimental to block getting sway through NEW and into experimental, although we'd want to hold off moving sway to unstable until the wlroots situation is resolved. So, I stand by my d/control commenting suggestion. -- Sean Whitton
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