Bug#523992: how did libprotobuf3 make it past NEW?

2009-05-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 19:12:34 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: I don't see exactly what point you try to make here. From a technical point of view, I see some advantages to handle this minor upgrade in the same way as an ABI transition (the strongest one being to ensure that the old

Bug#523992: how did libprotobuf3 make it past NEW?

2009-04-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du mardi 14 avril 2009, vers 09:13, Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org disait : libprotobuf3 appears to be severely brain-damaged, as it prevents older versions of the library from being installed (and for no reason afaict): Package: libprotobuf3

Bug#523992: how did libprotobuf3 make it past NEW?

2009-04-14 Thread Robert Edmonds
Vincent Bernat wrote: I don't see exactly what point you try to make here. From a technical point of view, I see some advantages to handle this minor upgrade in the same way as an ABI transition (the strongest one being to ensure that the old packages do not lie around). this is not