Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 06:33:59PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > apt-rdepends > > Interesting, but not useful for the case I had today: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-rdepends --build-depends --reverse foo > E: Reverse build-dependencies are not

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-14 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 14 August 2005 02.40, Robert Collins wrote: > On a related note, should we consider defining a convention similar to > soname for dynamic languages like perl/python etc? I.e. for a python > library 'foo', install the code as 'foo1', and have a dummy package > 'foo' which has a __init__.p

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 13:31 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Hi, > > After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, > I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used > by other people and you break the API, you should notify > them. Really. It

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:01 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] >>> After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil >>> FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that >>> gets used by other peo

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 10:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:01 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] > > > After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil > > > FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that > > > g

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:01 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] > > After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil > > FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that > > gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notif

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] > After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil > FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that > gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notify > them. Really. A good idea. Perhaps we should have a tool in the

Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Hi, After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notify them. Really. It makes life easier. For the usual C/C++ libraries its not that complicated, as