Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

2009-08-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 11 août 2009 à 08:05 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo a écrit : > I know this is 20/20 hindsight, but this could have been handled much > better by raising bugs against and fixing all the client libraries > *before* removing the libogg.la. It would probably also be a good idea > to discourage th

Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

2009-08-10 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Erik de Castro Lopo] > > I'm think I'm coming in rather late on this, but why were these .la > > files removed? I've read through bug#539687 and its still not clear. > > I can't speak for Ron, Thanks Peter, you'll do. > but in general, the reason to remove .la files >

Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

2009-08-10 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Erik de Castro Lopo] > I'm think I'm coming in rather late on this, but why were these .la > files removed? I've read through bug#539687 and its still not clear. I can't speak for Ron, but in general, the reason to remove .la files is that pkg-config (and the .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig) off

Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

2009-08-10 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ron wrote: > At least upstream seems active on that one. And the maintainer was around > to respond to #518037 in March, even if their response wasn't entirely > satisfactory and upstream themselves asked to reopen it :/ So he's not > entirely MIA ... OTOH, Erik, the upstream maintainer, does s

Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

2009-08-09 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 06:26:32PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Ron wrote: > > And libarts1c2a has its own grave bug, also open since March, with no > > response whatsoever from its maintainers. > > Strange, I thought the maintainers would be more responsive, lets put > them in Cc. > Arts is dead (*

Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

2009-08-09 Thread Ron
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 06:26:32PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Ron wrote: > > Well, to be frankly honest, I don't actually _want_ you guys to blindly > > schedule blanket binNMUs for the lot of these. I'd much rather that it > > shook out all the packages that were as neglected as this was when I ha

Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

2009-08-09 Thread Luk Claes
Ron wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:04:36PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> Hmm, you do know that it's your job to hand that list (including all the >> reverse deps of reverse deps ...) to the release team including the >> necessary dep waits so we don't have to reschedule them till all succeeded? >

Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

2009-08-09 Thread Ron
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:04:36PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Hmm, you do know that it's your job to hand that list (including all the > reverse deps of reverse deps ...) to the release team including the > necessary dep waits so we don't have to reschedule them till all succeeded? Well, to be fran