severity 339255 important thanks On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:16:37PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 17 November 2005 at 03:22, Matthias Klose wrote: > | Compiler versions g++-4.0_4.0.2-4 and g++-3.4_3.4.4-10 are now in the > | archive. The renaming of the library packages can now start. You can > | upload the packages even before the toolchain is built for all architectures > | because the packages with the new binary packages will be hold in the NEW > | queue until the required toolchain changes are installed on the buildd's. > I am getting this because of Quantlib. Now, for libquantlib-0.3.11, the most > recent version, as well as for the preceding ones: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> apt-cache rdepends libquantlib-0.3.11 > libquantlib-0.3.11 > Reverse Depends: > r-cran-rquantlib > quantlib-ruby > quantlib-python > quantlib-examples > quantlib-examples > libquantlib0-dev > libquantlib0-dev > Do I really need to do the "c2a" renaming dance? I upload a new Quantlib, > and a day later rebuild my two packages that depend on ? [ quantlib-swig > provides quantlib-ruby and quantlib-python; rquantlib provides > r-cran-rquantlib; quantlib-examples comes fromq quantlib itself. ] Do you *need* to? Technically, since this library soname has been confined to unstable and presumably has not been used elsewhere as a .deb under this name, it's not an RC bug if the ABI changes without a change in package name. It's still a bug, of a sort I believe we should take seriously; but it won't prevent quantlib from shipping with etch... > This small set makes Quantlib a little easier to deal with than a full blown > KDE component or base library. So shall we do this without "c2a" ? No, the size of the reverse-dependency tree is not a factor in whether the bug should be treated as release-critical. If a package is presenting a shared library interface, this must be done responsibly so that *however* many packages there are depending on it, they don't break sa a result of partial upgrades. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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