On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:47:46AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I am kind of concerned about this, just like Julian was, with > regards to upgrading all the packages to the new method. As I still > am smarting from the /usr/doc fiasco, having a proper transition plan > is perhaps as important as changing policy.
I agree. We need to set up a staging area for all the libraries, fix them all, and once every one of them is set up correctly, make a mass upload to Incoming. That is how things were done with the last big GNOME upgrade, and it worked just fine. The last Perl transition succeeded (more or less) without a staging area, due to loads of NMUs done by Raphael Hertzog, but even so a lot of things broke and lots of bug reports were filed while he was doing it. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
