Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be> wrote: >John Rowland Lenton schreef op do 21-04-2011 om 18:23 [+0100]: >> * recently we had to upgrade couchdb in lucid for replication to >work, >> and the upgrade broke replication with the old version (which was >the >> reason we needed to upgrade), as well as potentially breaking couch >> apps that only worked with the older version. What we ended up >doing >> was putting the fix in backports as the less onerous of the >> non-world-breaking options we had. > >Wasn't it possible to make the new U1 client(s) depend on a new package >'couchdb-for-u1' (just an example name) which installs in a different >location/namespace and doesn't interfere with the LTS version of it? > Code copies complicate security support and post release maintenance. It's not forbidden, but definitely discouraged.
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