On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:45:55PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:25:45AM +0200, Michel D?nzer scrawled: > > On Fre, 2003-04-04 at 00:57, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > *sigh*. Imagine this. > > > > > > Qt has a compile-time ./configure check for Xrandr. If it finds it, it > > > enables a few Xrandr related features, and links with Xrandr. > > > > > > Qt gets built with 4.3 and uploaded. Now you have to have 4.3 to run any > > > Qt app. > > > > Why would Qt (or anything, for that matter) be built against 4.3? If that > > happens, it's either for experimental as well, or the uploader(s) will get > > bugs about it and should learn to use tools like pbuilder. > > Well, the maintainer dist-upgrades and gets 4.3.
He will get an immediate bug report from the autobuilders :))) I believe that the way to go on this, not only in this case, is to send source only packages to the archive, and have everything autobuilt. > The scenario was for 4.3 being in sid, and 4.2 becoming second-class. I > certainly do all of my builds within sbuild, and encourage others to do > the same. > > > > So it's more work for all of us, for no advantage? > > > > If the increased potential for people to jump in doesn't count as an > > advantage... > > Why would there be an increased potential? You need to be incredibly > clueful and dedicated to jump in anyway ... And how do you get clue-full, by waking one morning with a illumination or whatever, or by following the mails of the one actually knowledgeable enough. Sure, some will only lurk, but even if we get 1 more developper, then it is already helpfull. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
