> 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.
You are possibly right, but for now, while situation is as it is, why not fix Build-Depends and re-upload immidiatly? This is a one-line fix, so should not take you long. But an installable version of kdegraphics will become available faster.
