Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-08-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon wrote: > Some more: > > Don't depend on some arb version number of libs. Nothing worse than being > forced to use some lib 4 versions behind current when current actually works > just fine ACK. But most times, that IMHO comes from incompatible API (or ABI) changes. Perhaps I s

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 June 2010 23:57:54 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 25 Juni 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > > > Comments welcomed :) > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 Juni 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > Comments welcomed :) > > > cu no bundled libs. when you change the tarball fucking change the versio

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 June 2010 22:17:39 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > Comments welcomed :) My biggest beef by far when packaging apps is automagic dependencies. e17

[gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/