On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 20:09 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > John Rowland Lenton schreef op do 21-04-2011 om 18:23 [+0100]: > > * recently we had to upgrade couchdb in lucid for replication to work, > > and the upgrade broke replication with the old version (which was the > > reason we needed to upgrade), as well as potentially breaking couch > > apps that only worked with the older version. What we ended up doing > > was putting the fix in backports as the less onerous of the > > non-world-breaking options we had. > > Wasn't it possible to make the new U1 client(s) depend on a new package > 'couchdb-for-u1' (just an example name) which installs in a different > location/namespace and doesn't interfere with the LTS version of it?
Possible? Probably. Easy? Certainly not. The difficulty in dealing with a custom couchdb package, for only one stable release that's already out there, was just not worth the trouble it would cause.
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