Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:37:33AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > Since when an user should install a chrooot environment to install a > package ? This is unacceptable. > > [...] > > will be unique in being the only distro with libgdk-pixbuf3 for gnome1. The > > soname of the library is for upstream to set, not for packagers to muddle > > with, if one cares about compatibility. > Anyway this will be the latest gdk-pixbuf upstream tarball for G1, then > there is no importance to change the libraries soname.
> I can't believe you're dismissing this with such arguments. > I'll repeat what Ryan said: it is NOT your job to invent sonames. That In that case yes. We have started with gdk-imlib than we can continue with gdk-pixbuf. > is upstream's job. It is also not cool to make Debian 3.1's GNOME1 > incompatible with every other. Who is other ? > Can you not see this is a very important breakage, and not being able to > install two -dev packages isn't? Yes. Christian
