On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:49:26AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:33:05AM +0200, Jim Mintha wrote: > > I have been talking to Christian. The new packages of slang are ready > > to go. I have been waiting for other people to upgrade their packages > > to slang1_1.2.2-3 which fixes a dependancy problem. Most people have > > updated their packages but there were a few more that had promised to > > upload soon. As soon as 1.3.8 is uploaded those packages will break > > (and since a couple of them and slang are all default packages this > > means most upgrades of potato will break) I announced most of this > > before. > > Does this mean that the new slang package should be named slang1.3? > > If backwards compatability isn't maintained, what's the rational for > keeping the same package name?
No there is backward compatibility, but the earlier versions of slang 1.2.2 had a shlibs.depend that created a dependency on slang1 << 1.3 which was wrong. So there were two options: 1) make a slang1.3 package (and a slang1.4 package etc) even though they were compatible 2) Uploaded a slang 1.2.x package that fixed shlibs.depend and get the slang dependent packages to recompile. After discussing it on the mailing lists I went with 2, and most packages have now been updated. Jim -- Jim Mintha Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Work: +31 20 525-4919 Informatiseringscentrum Home: +31 20 662-3892 University of Amsterdam Debian GNU/Linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _There are always Possibilities_ http://jim.ultralinux.org
