Today I was reminded of something that causes apps not to migrate into sarge. When maintainers remove old libraries from the archive! Today for example libexif8 was removed by Christophe Barbe and replaced by libexif9. Guess what that does... any package which depends on libexif8 now becomes... you guessed it... UNINSTALLABLE! Why does this annoy me in particular, because I just uploaded kdegraphics yesterday which was built against libexif8. Guess how many hours it takes for the m68k buildd to rebuild kdegraphics..... OVER 38 HOURS!
IMHO we need to make an addition to policy stating that an old lib can not be removed from the archive until no other packages still depend on it. Chris Cheney
