Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not personally feel that the major version number used by a > software project is a meaningless detail. At least not in the case of > Mesa, where they bump the major version number to reflect major new > developments, like texture and lighting acceleration support.
I appreciate your respect for the upstream authors, but I don't think the package name is an appropriate forum to express that. Shared library packages carry part of the soname in their names so that multiple versions can be installed simultaneously. This does not seem to be the case here as 3 is not related to the soname. In the event that the mesa version number is bumped without the ABI changing, you risk either being inconsistent or changing the package name gratuitously. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]