On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > Damaged the project... no. Caused a RC bug to be overlooked... yes. > I recently encountered a package where the library's binary package > was not named after the SONAME. This caused a lintian error which was... > overridden. And it broke horribly when the SONAME change went unnoticed > because... well... the binary was never named after the SONAME and thus > the check wasn't active anymore.
The person who did this should probably reconsider their need to maintain library packages or be force-fed 100 copies of libpkg-guide (and its bugs) printed on sandpaper. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
