On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:10:59AM +0200, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Olly Betts <o...@survex.com> wrote:
> > One question, why the dummy transitional packages and the
> > Breaks/Replaces?
> >
> > The files installed don't seem to overlap at all between the "2.8" and
> > "3.0" packages, so it looks to me like they should be co-installable,
> > which would make transitioning a bit smoother. Currently installing
> > an application which depends on libwxsqlite3-3.0-0 will force
> > libwxsqlite3-2.8-0 and any applications depending on it to be
> > uninstalled.
> Yes, the old and new packages are co-installable. The package
> transition serves two things.
This isn't how a library transition is usually done. If you don't
believe me, check with the release team.
> The first one is don't leave the old ones behind, but this can be done
> later.
If you're worried about the binary packages which are no longer built
by the wxsqlite source package being left behind in the archive, then
you don't need to - there are semi-automated systems to handle removal
of such "cruft" binary packages.
If you're worried about them being left on user systems, then you don't
need to. The user can clean up such packages easily (e.g. with "apt-get
autoremove"), and they may have locally built software (either in
locally built packages, or installed by hand) using the old run-time
library, in which case it's very unhelpful to try to force it off the
system like this.
> The second was my compilation attempts of build-dependent packages.
> Can't recall the exact problem and/or those may be addressed by
> sourceful uploads of those packages.
Without a more detailed report, it's hard to say what might be up, but
the runtime packages should coexist without issues.
> Thus if you insist so, I may revert the package transition if that
> would help a lot.
Well, I wouldn't say I insist, but I'd definitely advise against it.
> I'm not at my Linux box, don't know how many packages are in affect. I
> recall three or four only.
dak rm says these three:
codelite
guayadeque
maitreya
Cheers,
Olly
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