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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 15 Oct 2002 17:00:13 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 15 12:00:13 2002 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from pizarro.unex.es [158.49.8.2] (root) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 181V3E-0005q8-00; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:00:12 -0500 Received: from guadiana.unex.es ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [158.49.8.233]) by pizarro.unex.es (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA12989 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:00:11 +0200 Received: from cantor.unex.es (cantor.unex.es [158.49.18.105]) by guadiana.unex.es (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA16588 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:00:17 +0200 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:00:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: glibc-$DEBVERSION dependency is harmful for unreleased architectures Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: locales The dependency of locales on glibc-$DEBVERSION is harmful for non-released architectures like the Hurd, since the only locales package which exists (since there is not a testing disrtibution) becomes uninstallable until the glibc package is recompiled. Such dependency should be on glibc-$VERSION at most. The reason glibc-$DEBVERSION was required in the past was that, at some point, there were incompatible locales and libc packages having the same VERSION but different DEBVERSION numbers. This was because the maintainer was introducing new code from CVS without changing the VERSION, which may be considered as a bad practice. So, I request that the dependency is changed again to a non-debversioned one (like glibc-$VERSION) and the maintainer refrains from making incompatible changes without changing $VERSION as well. Thanks. --------------------------------------- Received: (at 164868-done) by bugs.debian.org; 21 Oct 2002 09:48:55 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 21 04:48:55 2002 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from oris.opensource.jp (oris.opensource.gr.jp) [218.44.239.73] ([1l1qnht+leMjViUOlSCHz+HTKL+19TeB]) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 183ZB9-0008KQ-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:48:55 -0500 Received: from oris.opensource.jp (oris.opensource.jp [218.44.239.73]) by oris.opensource.gr.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FD6C33C1; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:48:53 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:48:53 +0900 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#164868: glibc-$DEBVERSION dependency is harmful for unreleased architectures In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.9.9 (Unchained Melody) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: At Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:00:24 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila wrote: > The dependency of locales on glibc-$DEBVERSION is harmful for > non-released architectures like the Hurd, since the only locales > package which exists (since there is not a testing disrtibution) > becomes uninstallable until the glibc package is recompiled. I don't know why hurd is the special case. Why do you just recompile them? > Such dependency should be on glibc-$VERSION at most. > > The reason glibc-$DEBVERSION was required in the past was that, at > some point, there were incompatible locales and libc packages having > the same VERSION but different DEBVERSION numbers. This was because > the maintainer was introducing new code from CVS without changing > the VERSION, which may be considered as a bad practice. > > So, I request that the dependency is changed again to a non-debversioned > one (like glibc-$VERSION) and the maintainer refrains from making > incompatible changes without changing $VERSION as well. Locales should depends on glibc-$DEBVERSION, because somethimes we apply the latest glibc cvs code in the same glibc-$VERSION (and count up glibc-$DEBVERSION) as you said. Locale handling is still active development area, so we can't ignore the difference of both localedata and locale handling code. Thus, I can't accept your request. Regards, -- gotom