-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/09/2014 11:04 AM, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2014 16:06:46 +0200 Thorsten Glaser <t...@debian.org> > wrote: > >> On Fri, 9 May 2014, Andrew Shadura wrote: >> >>> Changes to the default init system should not affect existing >>> setups. >> >> Strong ACK. > > That only happens when the default is at the Debian Installer / > tasksel level. > > e.g. a change of default desktop for d-i only affects new d-i > installs. > > A change of default compiler version *regularly* affects any existing > setup which has build-essential installed and this is 100% correct. > > Nobody wants their pbuilder / schroot build environments stuck on an > old version of the compiler - nor does anyone actually want to > require manual intervention to go from gcc-4.8 to gcc-4.9 - that's > what we have the gcc package. > > Same is true for the default python interpreter or various other > default packages rather than "package selections" via tasksel or d-i. There is a considerable difference, however, between automatically installing the new version of a program (even if in a different package for whatever reason) and automatically installing a completely different program from the original, simply because both programs are intended for the same role. You could argue that it's appropriate to do anyway - e.g. that it would be appropriate to automatically switch existing systems from gcc to clang if the default compiler referenced by build-essential got changed. It still shouldn't be treated as the same thing as a simple version upgrade, however. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTbPjoAAoJEASpNY00KDJrs/oP/21HT9rxd69UYOTDoEwILFt7 BSSjj80iNGtUY+zZqPsbs/GvgQqIW50i6sqYjO5tzHUHn9l5RNybHEbs6dqEjV/a 2pwesFVp0XLJ1Qa2q+0X5y5Vf+UzYVGMkBUGxrPA1bQqzOad99AeU+r28RvHaBCf X6XGpt+TpRbl2l7db8m+zJV5hCPMlK1KFWsRti/JfsaYYs8WE+opnUu76nm8G+dW ZA/ANm01wNU8NIC+ct6ue1X/3c6OjUILk0yls8cUHvDDBbtA+lPIXfba37KSAoNO pwGkehKLQXDWAfZp4/nQve8xu/sO/acjsGeYklOMHavg9uXcwurGBDQskoChZtTb /ALYUSEm95C1aaed79zdxjhVlcN/hIL7dhkFwF+Lnghq8QYJVf+4jcLwU+vix8vX 9YjSsmlbPJDw/CoAQc6hiIKkJA07rUCyzRHxBTW3nDIkQ6mA+5P9iNcgZiz4jkqL rLKf7vDBAjEXa5kx35wAhATYtj9TAAQGRpn2LTpdaXxb1W9s3I0E5w/3dXh8W7PW c+MlKEQ3sK3PZkQq1b3CjgH8sAzzxNZrz78QFYQBrOdYpOyYyXsJIjdw4Y9EP6Ev CQnLu4VRK5azb3PjIqcWpdwWZg1/BDZ9vaL4cAG8pJqKz9rP3Vbhqq5TNQGEUDGl naym04AwzeGrBKDD4B6V =eyxN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/536cf8e8.30...@fastmail.fm
