On 06/03/2016 03:47 PM, Santiago Vila wrote: > Would not make sense to make such dependency versioned? > > Depends: mate-desktop-common (>= 1.14.1) > > I have the feeling that this little change not only would have > prevented the current little mess, but might also prevent similar > cases in the future.
Yes, that should be indeed in the debian/control file. And this would have actually been a valid bug report which I would never see any problems with that. But what we actually got was a flood of bug reports which basically consisted of people reporting the error messages only, that's all. For someone using a development version of Debian, I would at least expect them to do some debugging on their side and suggest a solution, I mean, it's a development release after all. But just complaining with such a huge number of bug reports was just not acceptable. @Mike: Let's go through all the packages' control files and check that there is a versioned Depends with >= 1.14.1. And let's also fix the problem that James has report in [1]. Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826183 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
