On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Steve M. Robbins<[email protected]> wrote: > Arguably, yes. I can understand that it is a nuisance to have > software suddenly stop compiling. > > On the other hand, if Debian continued to support these variant names, > we'd be out-of-step with other linux distributions and we might have > people developing under Debian complaining that other distributions > can't compile their code. We've been in that situation before and > it turned out to be a headache for us (the Boost maintainers). > > So I'd rather not create symlinks.
Does stable have the variants without suffix? If not, different libs are needed in stable and testing which I think isn't acceptable. Stuff should first be deprecated in a release, then it can be removed in the next one. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
