Re: Slink to potato upgrade
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:14:14AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Sunday 21 March 1999, at 22 h 38, the keyboard of Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
> wrote:
>
> > My package, my decision. My decision: no.
>
> It is an interesting political problem for the whole Debian project. Can a developer be the Absolute Overlord and Master for his packages? It makes sense for a "terminal" package, one which is not used by other packages, but what about base packages such as the libc? I'm the maintainer of dupload, which is used by the vast majority of Debian packages for uploading. What if I decide to add a mandatory lintian check in dupload? "My package, my decision" ?
It's not quite the same. Developers can easily hold packages whose
newer versions disagree with them when they're a tool like dupload;
not so with libc6, I fear.
I think it is better to work out why these other packages break
than to just work around it.
Hamish
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