On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 02:04:52AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Joey Hess writes: > > Josip Rodin wrote: > > > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* > > > packages > > > every time python* is mentioned? :P > > > > Actually I'm more reminded of the perl* packages and the complete mess > > that followed. And I keep expecting to see the same set of problems > > affect python. > > I'd like to see a way how to ease transitions between major version of > "basic" packages. It is an problem, if accumulated transitions > prohibit the migration of packages to testing. libgdbm recently broke > the migrations,
Actually, gdbm was pretty easy. The only packages that had problems were ones that depended on libgdbmg1-dev, and the reason that that took a while to resolve was not because of gdbm but because openldap2 was having problems at the time. I'd say it was a well-handled transition. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
