On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:43:14AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Should I rebuild the i386 binaries with the new xlib6g-dev > > > and upload them with .0.1 version number suffix? Or perhaps it > > > doesn't matter? > > > > As far as xlib6g is concerned, I don't think it does matter. > > But it might. There *have* been changes to the libraries between 3.3.2.3 > and 3.3.5. No, I don't think any interfaces have changed. > > But just to err on the side of caution, would anyone doing what Santiago is > doing PLEASE recompile their packages against the latest versions of the > potato libraries shortly before the potato freeze? > > Mixed slink/potato systems are temporary things. Potato will be around for > a long time. So let us please make it internally consistent.
You seem to imply that a package compiled under slink saying xlib6g (>= 3.3.2.3a-2) "might" not work ok under potato. Well, if this is the case, then IMHO it would be a bug, that we should better discover and fix rather than not discover and not fix it. Thanks. -- "d3b4a86229ffa32d21ca6b60a5e15b21" (a truly random sig)
