Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Sean McE
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:08 +0200 Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess you are running unstable: you have to expect those glitches. > It should not happen in testing or stable. It should not happen in > unstable very often either: apparently it's only for new upstream > vers

How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Sean McE
First, I'm a user, not a maintainer. I'm in a debate with a package maintainer that could be endless and so I'd like a your expertise to help end it. The maintainer is breaking his own dependant packages with every version change, and he says that's the only way to do it. His reason for this is in