* Adrian Bunk (b...@debian.org) wrote:
> Source: automake-1.17
> Version: 1:1.17-1
> Severity: minor
>
> src:automake-${version} source packages made sense back in the
> days when there were also several automake-${version} binary
> packages in the archive.
>
> Today automake is stale and stable, and there will likely never
> again be more than one version in the archive.
>
> Today src:automake-${version} gets you a round through NEW for
> each new automake major release, and also means some bugs have
> to be moved manually from the old to the new package - with no
> benefits anymore of haveing the version in the source package name.I think the problem from the past has been we weren't entirely sure that 1.1Y didn't have backwards compatibility issues compared to 1.1X. Hopefully we won't see that with 1.16 and 1.17 (so far so good), but it's nice to have the option built in if necessary. There's also paused plans for an automake-2.0 that could get reinvigorated. So I'm not in any rush to undo this, but worth looking at it again in a year. -- Eric Dorland <e...@kuroneko.ca> 43CF 1228 F726 FD5B 474C E962 C256 FBD5 0022 1E93
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