On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:47:20AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Hrmz, is there any good reason to really have this many (4 until I just > removed gmime0) versions of the same library in Debian? Only if it's very > difficult to migrate to a next version, and there are a lot of reverse > dependencies, it's IMHO sensible to have multiple versions. Otherwise, I > stronly suggest to make the source package name 'gmime', and not change > that while uploading new versions of the package, but instead filing bugs > on reverse-depends to migrate. There are only 3 packages using a version of > gmime, incidently, all are using the latest version already.
We already discussed that (see the bug complete bugreport). Ove is still
the maintainer of gmime1, so I defer the decission to remove it to him,
but otherwise I'd ask for its removal as well. I guess I could remove
gmime2 in favour of gmime2.1, since the latter is ABI backwards
compatible with gmime2, and everyone is using the latter anyway.
I don't like to rename the source package to 'gmime', I've seen to many
cases of a new major version of a library coming out that wasn't
backwards compatible at all (not even at compile time) with previous
versions, so that in the end you had to support both, in which case the
added version number to the name of the source package is helpful. And
if there is only one version, it doesn't hurt either.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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