Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't do that. A library transition breaks packages in unstable > for a while, but if we have both versions, we're going to have to deal > with them for several *years*. That's what happened for libpng, and > believe me, it's a nightmare.
Why do you think that we would have to deal with both versions for years? I expect no problems in compiling and using packages with the new version, even if their upstream is dead for a while. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer