Hi, On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> Nifty idea. Kinda like it. My only beef is that the "user" must know to mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] True. But I don't think that using [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an alias for exactly these purposes would be a terrible practical problem. In fact, having a gtk "metapackage" would probably not be a bad idea at all anyway. Any messages intended for libgtk1.1.7 ending up there could easily be channeled to the right place. You do have a point however that any foo-<version> package still has the history problems, not in the physical maintainer aspect, but in the package name. I'll have to think about that. > Could we extend this one more step and state that any package depending > on foo has their maintainer subscribed to foo's mailing list. That was > when foo changes all who depend on it will be aware. That would be > absolutely supreme. Indeed a fine idea. AOL Cheers, Joost
