Hi, Le lundi 22 octobre 2007 à 15:30 +0200, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Le lundi 22 octobre 2007 à 13:58 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : > >> So if I have the frontend from etch, and upgrade to the new libxine1 > >> without installing libxine1-x, the frontend is broken? > > Err, I've never heared that partial upgrades were supported.
There's a difference between supporting them and knowingly breaking them - and knowingly breaking all upgrades in testing and unstable without adding proper Conflicts. > AFAIK, if > you decide to stay on etch and want to upgrade libxine1 only, the > procedure is called a 'backport'. No, it is called a partial upgrade and it should work, because working partial upgrades are a necessary condition for working full upgrades, and a necessary condition for a usable unstable distribution. If a specific partial upgrade doesn't work, you should mark it with a "Conflicts:" field (until the "Breaks:" field is implemented). Otherwise, we could as well use Redhat or Ubuntu. > > Yes. It sounds to me that the cure is worse than the disease. > > Sorry? Can you please elaborate on this? > > This change has not been uploaded yet, so we still have time to > reconsider. But please make sure that you have read and understood the > problem and the arguments from #439389 first. Moving the plugins to a separate package is definitely a good idea, but removing functionality in a library package is called breaking the ABI, and it requires a change in the package name. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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