You are kidding right? I have not removed an old library, I have uploaded a newer upstream with a different soname. That's the way it works, a new library is uploaded, then packages using it are rebuilt and when they are all ready they migrate in testing.
As the gphoto2 maintainer, I don't remember getting mails from you announcing an upcoming libusb package with a new soname. Perhaps that's because I was waiting for a few months to get a working one for our powerpc users. IMHO we need to make an addition to the policy stating that not being an asshole on the mailing-list is welcome. I don't remember sending mails to the mailing list when the libusb packaging was broken for a few months, but I do remember sending you polite mails. For you information, some packages using libexif need libexif9. I agree that I could (should) have sent a prior notice before uploading it (more than a week ago, BEFORE your kdegraphics upload), but that's not an excuse to be an asshole. Christophe On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:32:37PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > Today I was reminded of something that causes apps not to migrate into > sarge. When maintainers remove old libraries from the archive! Today > for example libexif8 was removed by Christophe Barbe and replaced by > libexif9. Guess what that does... any package which depends on libexif8 > now becomes... you guessed it... UNINSTALLABLE! Why does this annoy me > in particular, because I just uploaded kdegraphics yesterday which was > built against libexif8. Guess how many hours it takes for the m68k > buildd to rebuild kdegraphics..... OVER 38 HOURS! > > IMHO we need to make an addition to policy stating that an old lib can > not be removed from the archive until no other packages still depend on > it. > > Chris Cheney > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E A qui sait comprendre, peu de mots suffisent. (Intelligenti pauca.)
