On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 09:50:23AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > > > and upgrade from an experimental package is not supported (it generally > > works, but the maintainer doesn't have to take that into account). > > This is a bizarre statement to me. Why would you not take that into > account as a maintainer? I always have for everything I've uploaded to > experimental.
FWIW, I've done ABI-incompatible uploads of perl to experimental in the past without changing the perlapi-* virtual package name or the libperl SONAME. The aim was to experiment with different configuration options, particularly 64-bit integers and 128-bit long doubles. I certainly didn't support upgrades from those versions to the same extent as I'd have done for unstable. OTOH, the packages were pretty close to uninstallable on any non-minimal systems anyway, as we didn't offer corresponding rebuilt XS modules in experimental. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130402200131.GA7442@madeleine.local.invalid
