Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-30 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le jeudi 29 septembre 2005 à 19:18 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : >> Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Please don't do that. A library transition breaks packages in unstable >> > for a while, but if we have both versions, we're going

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 29 septembre 2005 à 19:18 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please don't do that. A library transition breaks packages in unstable > > for a while, but if we have both versions, we're going to have to deal > > with them for several *years*.

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't do that. A library transition breaks packages in unstable > for a while, but if we have both versions, we're going to have to deal > with them for several *years*. That's what happened for libpng, and > believe me, it's a nightmare. Why d

Re: Would a "still depends on libkpathsea3" bug be RC? (was: How to prevent a library transition)

2005-09-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050929 10:07]: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > >> If my second interpretation is right, we depend on maintainers' action > >> for that. In order to make all dependencies on the old versio

Would a "still depends on libkpathsea3" bug be RC? (was: How to prevent a library transition)

2005-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote: >> If my second interpretation is right, we depend on maintainers' action >> for that. In order to make all dependencies on the old version >> disappear, would a "still depends on libkpathsea3" bug b

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frank Kuester wrote: > As far as I can see, in this case all other packages would continue > using libkpathsea-dev (corresponding to libkpathsea3) for building, and > continue to depend on libkpathsea3, which in turn would continue to be > available. Only the tetex-bin deb itself would depend on l

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > If my second interpretation is right, we depend on maintainers' action > for that. In order to make all dependencies on the old version > disappear, would a "still depends on libkpathsea3" bug be RC? Yes, fixable with a quick-and-dirty NMU that only does

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would work for the library issue, and would "only" makes some > packages FTBFS because tetex changed (but I can think we can live with > that). Even better, if you do it right, you can change the > libkpathsea-dev to libkpathsea4-dev if TeTeX-3.0 has

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:53:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to do the following: teTeX-3.0 is uploaded to > unstable, including the libkpathsea4 and libkpathsea4-dev packages (it > uses the library itself), but at the same time libkpathsea3 and > libkpathsea-dev are stil

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050928 14:54]: > Wouldn't it be possible to do the following: teTeX-3.0 is uploaded to > unstable, including the libkpathsea4 and libkpathsea4-dev packages (it > uses the library itself), but at the same time libkpathsea3 and > libkpathsea-dev are still available

Re: How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 28 septembre 2005 à 14:53 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : > Wouldn't it be possible to do the following: teTeX-3.0 is uploaded to > unstable, including the libkpathsea4 and libkpathsea4-dev packages (it > uses the library itself), but at the same time libkpathsea3 and > libkpathsea-dev ar

How to prevent a library transition

2005-09-28 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, teTeX-3.0 has been sitting in experimental for a while; we have not uploaded it to unstable because it involves a library soname bump, and the release team has requested not to upload new library versions. However, there's much more to this new upstream release, also much more that requires t