On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:18:00AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > I think you miss a point here. After a rebuild NONE of the packages > in the repos depend on the old library. So there is no point in us > packaging the old library for compatibilty, as none is needed. We > only support the latest packages in the repos, so if you have issues > with old versions of packages or packages from unsupported sources, > then it is up to you to fix them. It seems you didn't even read what I wrote. I do *not* propose to keep old versions in the repo. I did even write explicitly that I consider it normal for all packages in a repo to depend on only one library version. I *do* propose to not remove the actual old library files when installing a new one with a different major version. That's all. In other words, do not *force* a user to update all app using a library just because one of them requires a newer version. Doing this leaves the user with a broken system, possibly at the most inconvenient time. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
