reassign 528453 debian-policy 3.9.1.0 severity 528453 wishlist retitle 528453 debian policy: please discourage overly strict run-time version checks tags 528453 - wontfix quit
Hi, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Jonathan Nieder hat am Fri 01. Jan, 10:42 (+0000) geschrieben: >> Jörg Sommer wrote: >>> This report didn't really describe a bug. It's more a (loosely) feature >>> of Jed to check if the version used at runtime is at least as recent as >>> the version used while building. As said before, this warning comes up >>> everytime jed migrates faster to testing than libslang and vanishes when >>> libslang migrated. >>> >>> We don't want to add a dependency to jed on the libslang version used at >>> buildtime, because this would drive the dynamic dependency system of >>> Debian useless—Debian's symbol bases dependency system is much more >>> accurate than jed's loosely feature. >> >> Why not suppress the warning? > > Because upstream decided the warning should be there and we do not want > to add a new patch for this. Debian policy does not explain that packages should not do this, but I think that's a bug in policy. This reminds me of a few bugs I've seen before: one in subversion (an overly strict run-time check for APR version) and one in various apps that use the tcl runtime (likewise). Reassigning. (Thoughts welcome, as always.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
