On 05/04/2016 11:29 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:03:36AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote: >> I don't understand however why bug is not fixed or lowered yet. >> >> [0]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822701 > What I do not understand if I read inside the bug report > >> This seems to happen with every htslib upgrade in the past few releases. >> bcftools builds have also been breaking as a result and I was a little >> confused. Aren't backwards-compatibility breaks supposed to be indicated >> by soname bumps? Or is this because samtools, bcftools, and htslib are >> all maintained by the same group, so they rely on the unstable internal >> interfaces? > that developers of quite important libs (important in terms of breaking > about 20 packages - probably way more unpackaged software) are not able > to craft a reliable interface. I wonder whether we should try to > explain them the trouble they are creating with their release management > and whether we should upload any new version to experimental first and > test other packages against it. It seems that the different tools they provide need to match all the same version, and for them this is certainly viewed as a "pack". Which means we need to upload/update all this tools at the same time for each new release.
Updating one package will force the update of the other packages. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438
