Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 29 septembre 2005 à 19:18 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't do that. A library transition breaks packages in unstable for a while, but if we have both versions, we're going to have to deal with them for several *years*. That's

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-30 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le jeudi 29 septembre 2005 à 19:18 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't do that. A library transition breaks packages in unstable for a while, but if we have both versions, we're going to have to

Would a still depends on libkpathsea3 bug be RC? (was: How to prevent a library transition)

2005-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote: If my second interpretation is right, we depend on maintainers' action for that. In order to make all dependencies on the old version disappear, would a still depends on libkpathsea3 bug be RC?

Re: Would a still depends on libkpathsea3 bug be RC? (was: How to prevent a library transition)

2005-09-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050929 10:07]: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote: If my second interpretation is right, we depend on maintainers' action for that. In order to make all dependencies on the old version

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't do that. A library transition breaks packages in unstable for a while, but if we have both versions, we're going to have to deal with them for several *years*. That's what happened for libpng, and believe me, it's a nightmare. Why do you

How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, teTeX-3.0 has been sitting in experimental for a while; we have not uploaded it to unstable because it involves a library soname bump, and the release team has requested not to upload new library versions. However, there's much more to this new upstream release, also much more that requires

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 28 septembre 2005 à 14:53 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : Wouldn't it be possible to do the following: teTeX-3.0 is uploaded to unstable, including the libkpathsea4 and libkpathsea4-dev packages (it uses the library itself), but at the same time libkpathsea3 and libkpathsea-dev are

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050928 14:54]: Wouldn't it be possible to do the following: teTeX-3.0 is uploaded to unstable, including the libkpathsea4 and libkpathsea4-dev packages (it uses the library itself), but at the same time libkpathsea3 and libkpathsea-dev are still available as

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:53:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Wouldn't it be possible to do the following: teTeX-3.0 is uploaded to unstable, including the libkpathsea4 and libkpathsea4-dev packages (it uses the library itself), but at the same time libkpathsea3 and libkpathsea-dev are still

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would work for the library issue, and would only makes some packages FTBFS because tetex changed (but I can think we can live with that). Even better, if you do it right, you can change the libkpathsea-dev to libkpathsea4-dev if TeTeX-3.0 has

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote: If my second interpretation is right, we depend on maintainers' action for that. In order to make all dependencies on the old version disappear, would a still depends on libkpathsea3 bug be RC? Yes, fixable with a quick-and-dirty NMU that only does a

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frank Kuester wrote: As far as I can see, in this case all other packages would continue using libkpathsea-dev (corresponding to libkpathsea3) for building, and continue to depend on libkpathsea3, which in turn would continue to be available. Only the tetex-bin deb itself would depend on