Adam C Powell IV wrote: > As you could see in my message, I did ask Joerg again, but with no reply > for a week, so nobody but Joerg knows what I did or didn't convince him > of. Well, I'm not Joerg, but based on the evidence of rejects/accepts and my understanding of policy and actual practices, it is my understanding that - the meta packages probably are the main rejection cause, - parallel installability of -dev-Packages is not an issue Debian cares about except for the most popular packages, - (this doesn't directly relate to the rejection, but nonetheless) the use of the alternatives system is probably a bad idea because it leads to unexpected compilation results (essentially many developers considere it a bug for a package build to produce substantially different builds when run on arbitrarily chosen current unstable systems), - versioned -dev package naming is not Joerg's preference, but when I asked him about a rejection of libfoo12-dev and pointed out Junichi's libpkg-guide recommendation he said he wouldn't reject for this in the future.
Kind regards T. P.S.: Should we move elsewhere from -release? -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
