Re: soversion for shared libraries?

2006-08-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > >> >> Maybe I haven't seen it, but IMHO the Debian policy should >> be more precise about _which_ soversion to use for shared >> libraries. >> >> Can we use our own soversion, ignoring other Linux distros >> and the rest of the world? Is upstream always right? Use

Re: dak now supports ~ in version numbers

2006-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Policy documents reality, so if now the reality is that ~ is > > supported and its use is encouraged, then yes, policy should be > > changed ASAP. > > No. Policy documents what is correct, not just any old broken > thing that is currently b

Re: dak now supports ~ in version numbers

2006-08-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:25:28 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006, sean finney wrote: >> > > Thanks to the work of our DPL Anthony "aj" Towns (and all the >> > > other people who have worked on this without my knowledge), I >> > > am happy to announce

Re: dak now supports ~ in version numbers

2006-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006, sean finney wrote: > > > Thanks to the work of our DPL Anthony "aj" Towns (and all the other > > > people who have worked on this without my knowledge), I am happy to > > > announce that dak, our archive management software, finally supports > > > the use of the tilde ('~') in

Re: dak now supports ~ in version numbers

2006-08-09 Thread sean finney
cc'ing debian-policy for their feedback... On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:21:10PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * martin f. krafft: > > > Thanks to the work of our DPL Anthony "aj" Towns (and all the other > > people who have worked on this without my knowledge), I am happy to > > announce that dak,