reopen 164868 thanks On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:00:24 +0200 (CEST), > Santiago Vila wrote: > > The dependency of locales on glibc-$DEBVERSION is harmful for > > non-released architectures like the Hurd, since the only locales > > package which exists (since there is not a testing disrtibution) > > becomes uninstallable until the glibc package is recompiled. > > I don't know why hurd is the special case. > Why do you just recompile them? That's not the problem, the problem is that *while* it's not recompiled yet, the locales package becomes *completely* uninstallable, because the old version is not available anymore. If you do not consider this a problem in libc, please reassign this to the ftp.debian.org package so that they create a testing distribution for all unreleased architectures, one that does not remove old packages until the new ones become installable. > > Such dependency should be on glibc-$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. If you are going to keep a "="-type dependency, you should perhaps merge both packages into a single one.
