On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 13:23 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Luke Macken wrote: > > Just because it's a new package means it doesn't need to be tested? :) > Can it cause regressions for existing users? -> No I don't think that this claim is true. There are many packages that have run-time checks for other programs/libraries/plugins that are not required for full functionality, and so aren't strict dependencies. The two examples that come to mind are Firefox and GStreamer plugins. Nautilus has a plugin mechanism as well, and many Perl and Python programs have run-time checks for optional libraries. Jeff
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