Wes Hardaker wrote:
> Please don't require users to be -coders members. Yes, it would be nice
> if everyone would participate in every way. But our job should be to
> make things work as best as it can so people that don't have extra time
> can still use the software. Yes, I agree that vendors should
> participate if they can. But I suspect if it was a requirement, many
> would stop shipping it instead.
If time is their major constraint and -coders doesn't work for them, I'd
be happy to propose to set up -vendors/-packagers for them and make sure
we bring up or summarize major vendor/packaging-related topics there.
How does that sound?
> TA> I'm tempted to agree, but would we really do vendors a favour? E.g.
> TA> Debian ships libnetsnmp*.so.X in a package called libsnmpX (and
> TA> libnetsnmp*.so.Y in a package called libsnmpY). I'm not sure how they'd
> TA> organize things if we switched to per-library versioning.
>
> They could still do that. Are you saying they ship libnetsnmpagent.X
> inside libnetsnmpX?
They ship libnetsnmpagent.so.X (together with
libnetsnmp{,helpers,mibs}.so.X) inside a package called libsnmpX.
+Thomas
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