Re: Versioned Dependencies (Was: Re: libjgrapht0.6-java_0.6.0-7_amd64.changes is NEWW)

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Koch
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:43:48PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Michael Koch wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:59:56PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Torsten Werner

Re: Versioned Dependencies (Was: Re: libjgrapht0.6-java_0.6.0-7_amd64.changes is NEWW)

2009-09-16 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Michael Koch wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:59:56PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Torsten Werner >> > wrote: >> > >> >> 2. You cannot binNMU an Architecture: all packa

Re: Versioned Dependencies (Was: Re: libjgrapht0.6-java_0.6.0-7_amd64.changes is NEWW)

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Koch
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:59:56PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: > > > >> 2. You cannot binNMU an Architecture: all package but java packages > >> are usually of Architecture: all. > > >

Re: Versioned Dependencies (Was: Re: libjgrapht0.6-java_0.6.0-7_amd64.changes is NEWW)

2009-09-16 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: > >> 2. You cannot binNMU an Architecture: all package but java packages >> are usually of Architecture: all. > > That may change at some point, there have been rumblings about > throwing

Re: Versioned Dependencies (Was: Re: libjgrapht0.6-java_0.6.0-7_amd64.changes is NEWW)

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: > 2. You cannot binNMU an Architecture: all package but java packages > are usually of Architecture: all. That may change at some point, there have been rumblings about throwing away maintainer-built packages (but still requiring them) and

Re: Versioned Dependencies (Was: Re: libjgrapht0.6-java_0.6.0-7_amd64.changes is NEWW)

2009-09-15 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi Matt, On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Matthew Johnson wrote: > possibly aided by binnmus AFAIK binNMUs won't work for most java packages. 1. They work for languages where API (source level compatibilty) and ABI (binary compatibility) are not the same. You will binMNU a package whenever the

Versioned Dependencies (Was: Re: libjgrapht0.6-java_0.6.0-7_amd64.changes is NEWW)

2009-09-02 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Sep 02 08:46, Michael Koch wrote: > IMO a possible solution would be to have two (or more) packages and let other > packages using jgrapht (Build-)Depend on the version they need. E.g. > libjgrapht-java > could always be the latest API and libjgrapht0.6-java is an older API which > some >