* Russ Allbery <[email protected]> [180602 18:24]: > Adrian is of course correct. > > The libcurl situation is exceptional and warranted a project-wide > discussion looking for cleaner migration paths (to no avail), so I think
Okay, I must have missed this discussion. Can you point me to the thread (on debian-devel?) related to this? > it would cause more confusion than clarity to try to spell out the cases > where this sort of action is warranted. But maybe a footnote is in order > to warn the Policy reader that sometimes this happens. How about this? LGTM, though I would have been satisfied with something even more brief, such as If there are technical reasons why it is unfeasible or impractical to have two versions of a library co-installable, an exception may be granted by consensus on the debian-devel mailing list. Thanks for the explanation. ...Marvin
