On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:13:23 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > David Paleino <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:35:34 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > >> Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am asking since there is a non-neglible cost of this transition, 15 > >> rc-bugs, making backports harder, etc. > > > Yes, you're missing that with no SONAME included in the package > > name, in case of a libgphoto2-3, a binNMU would be sufficient, > > instead of a sourceful upload. > [...] > > That is exactly what I try to say. By renaming from libgphoto2-2-dev > to libgphoto2-dev _now_ instead of when the soname bump happens we are > exchanging a sourceful uploads of rdeps *now* with a sourceful uploads > of rdeps *later*. It is purely a timing change. (And if the soname > bump never happened a unnecessary transition.)
Sure, if the SONAME bump never happens, it's an unnecessary transition. But if more than one bump happens, we saved lots of transitions. I agree that this should have been done when the package first appeared in place of gphoto2-dev. David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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