On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:29:32AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > I believe the infamous "aalib" affair actualy came out of a wishlist > bugreport submitted to them by a user; the then frozen potato aalib was too > low a version to meet all the helix dependencies. This meant people like me > had to pull aalib from unstable before I could install helix. By putting an > updated aalib into helix, debian potato users could apt-get helix without > that small hickup. It sounds like Helix made their own package rather than > grab the one from unstable... probably an un-necisary mistake. Dunno why > they did that, maybe so all the helix packages had a "helix" version number > for consistancy?
Yes, this is what happened. It was a mistake on my part, and I rebuilt our Gimp packages and removed aalib as soon as the issue came up on debian-devel. The problem was introduced when I didn't know the Debian shlibs setup well enough to override a false version dependency I picked up from the Woody aalib. It was fixed in our archive at the beginning of this discussion, and Joey has now uploaded a version to Woody that overrides the Helix one. I am sorry that Woody had to be affected (the revision of aalib is now -w30) as a result of the Helix GNOME packages. Based on my current plans and the discussion on this list, I think that this sort of thing will not happen again. Again, I apologize. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
