On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:05:14PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > To do that properly, I would be better if libiw was packaged separate > > from the wireless-tools by you. I can't do it with two source packages, > > because both would build "wireless-tools" debs, which would conflict > > with eachother, unless I rename the wireless-tools package to > > wireless-tools27 and wireless-tools28, which is clearly undesirable. > > I personally don't see why it's undesirable. A lot of packages > are managed that way (gcc for example).
Yes, but there gcc-4.0 adds new features but breaks old ones. I hope that wireless-tools (the command line utilities) only adds new features. I don't want two versions of the command line utilities in Debian at the same time. > > The other option is that I keep stable versions of wireless-tools in the > > unstable distribution, but upload the -pre versions to experimental. That > > reduces the number of people that will install the -pre versions though. > > Yep. But that's definitely a viable option, and would be the > simplest. However, I don't know how much testing experimental recieves > (most of my bug-reports come from Debian). I don't know either. But on the other hand, if people need the new features they will install the experimental version anyway, and if they don't, the new features won't be tested anyway. I think this option has my preference. > > A third option is that you increase the soname whenever you change the > > API (yes, even increasing the length of some buffer counts as an API > > change), even if it happens in the middle of -pre versions. > > Well, that's not going to work. For example, the change we are > talking about, I did not expected it. So, I would have forgotten to > fix the soname. Yes, I thought you would say that, and I don't disagree with you :) > > Yes. But on the other hand stable users might expect to use stable > > libraries for all the programs they install, so maybe the -pre version > > shouldn't end up in stable at all. > > Or if you have both versions, they can pick whichever they > prefer. I believe Gentoo does that : > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=wireless-tools Yes, but didn't they have some system to _automatically_ allow two different versions of packages with exactly the same content to be installed at the same time? Debian does not. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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