On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 22:25:27 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:56:05AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> > It is a known issue that gnumeric 1.4.x does not work properly against
> > libgsf 1.12.0
> 
> Then why does libgsf in testing have the same package name as in stable?

The issue became known only after 1.12.0 was released. At the time of its
release, it was believed to be backwards compatible, so its major SONAME
wasn't bumped, nor was the package name changed.

> Partial upgrades *are* supposed to be supported.

Sure, and like with all goals, they're not always achieved in practice.

Ray
-- 
"If we put in English phrases, that makes it readable".  That's COBOL.
        Larry Wall on common fallacies of language design


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