Hi, further to my mail yesterday about the broken dependency of kcontrol on libraw1394-5, please find below a message sent to the libraw1394 maintainer and his answer.
Is there a way to improve coordination amongst Debian maintainers and stop this finger-pointing attitude? A user. Well, what I see is that the whole KDE is not installable now on Sid because > your package name has changed from libraw1394-5 to libraw1394-8. This is not > a version change, it is a name change. My only question is : have you taken > all steps to ensure that the developers maintaining packages depending on > your package have been notified of such a change. > > Regards, > > Michel Favreau > Hey, libraw1394-5 was a very old version of the package, and there was no maintainer for this package since a few years. libraw1394-5 corresponding to a 0.10.1 version, and now the new version is 1.2.1... Between this 2 versions, the soname of the library has changed, and like it is mentioned in the debian-policy, the package name must change with the new soname. You can read it in the debian-policy. All debian maintainer know that. The maintainers of packages that need a dependency on libraw1394 must change the name of my package in the dependency of their package, I cannot do it. If it isn't mentioned to change name, I didn't do it... All developers that have a dependency on my package with their packages know that I uploaded a new version. Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
