Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 06:33:59PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: apt-rdepends Interesting, but not useful for the case I had today: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-rdepends --build-depends --reverse foo E: Reverse build-dependencies are not supported

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-14 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 14 August 2005 02.40, Robert Collins wrote: On a related note, should we consider defining a convention similar to soname for dynamic languages like perl/python etc? I.e. for a python library 'foo', install the code as 'foo1', and have a dummy package 'foo' which has a __init__.py

Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Hi, After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notify them. Really. It makes life easier. For the usual C/C++ libraries its not that complicated,

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notify them. Really. A good idea. Perhaps we should have a tool in the

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:01 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notify

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 10:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:01 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used by

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:01 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used by other people and you

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 13:31 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Hi, After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notify them. Really. It makes