On 8 February 2010 10:02, wrote:
> The only alternative to this is making sure that
> updated versions of all apps are made available
> as soon as the new library is used by any of them,
> and this is clearly impossible.
>
> I'm pretty sure that at the moment a system update
> or even complete fr
On 8 February 2010 03:49, wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:23:28AM -0200, Andre Ramaciotti wrote:
>
>> > Providing only the latest in the repos is OK, but erasing a
>> > previous version **with a different major version number**
>> > on a user's system surely isn't, as existing applications
>>
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:23:28AM -0200, Andre Ramaciotti wrote:
>
>> > Providing only the latest in the repos is OK, but erasing a
>> > previous version **with a different major version number**
>> > on a user's system surely isn't, as existing applicat
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:23:28AM -0200, Andre Ramaciotti wrote:
> > Providing only the latest in the repos is OK, but erasing a
> > previous version **with a different major version number**
> > on a user's system surely isn't, as existing applications
> > will depend on it.
>
> The user shoul
Hi fons,
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:02 AM, wrote:
> Replacing is allowed only if the major version
> number stays the same (which implies the lib
> will be compatible with the one it replaces).
>
> The only alternative to this is making sure that
> updated versions of all apps are made available
f...@kokkinizita.net writes:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:29:28AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>
>> >I find it extremely strange that updating a library
>> >removes the original - never seen this on any other
>> >distro. Nor is there any need to do this.
>>
>> We only package the latest stable versi
All programs should be rebuilt with the new libs.
On Feb 7, 2010 9:06 PM, wrote:
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:29:28AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> >I find it extremely strange that up...
Providing only the latest in the repos is OK, but erasing a
previous version **with a different major version n
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:29:28AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> >I find it extremely strange that updating a library
> >removes the original - never seen this on any other
> >distro. Nor is there any need to do this.
>
> We only package the latest stable versions of software and so very
> rarely h
On 02/08/2010 03:21 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
Hello all,
Today I installed Latex (texlive). Doing this installed
new versions of libpng and libjpeg, and this broke emacs,
xv and gnuplot (and maybe others I haven't discovered yet).
I was able to make xv work again by removing and re-instal
f...@kokkinizita.net writes:
> Hello all,
>
> Today I installed Latex (texlive). Doing this installed
> new versions of libpng and libjpeg, and this broke emacs,
> xv and gnuplot (and maybe others I haven't discovered yet).
>
> I was able to make xv work again by removing and re-installing
> it. T
On 08/02/10 11:21, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
Hello all,
Today I installed Latex (texlive). Doing this installed
new versions of libpng and libjpeg, and this broke emacs,
xv and gnuplot (and maybe others I haven't discovered yet).
I was able to make xv work again by removing and re-installing
Hello all,
Today I installed Latex (texlive). Doing this installed
new versions of libpng and libjpeg, and this broke emacs,
xv and gnuplot (and maybe others I haven't discovered yet).
I was able to make xv work again by removing and re-installing
it. This didn't help for emacs, but adding a symb
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