Em Qua, 2008-01-02 às 17:27 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway escreveu: > Patrice Dumas wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:28:42PM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > >> - Third party applications which still depend on the old interface (that > >> the maintainer is aware of specifically, not "something might use it > >> someday") > > > > That seems to me to be a perfect reason. Please don't try to force > > packagers to do something without reason. If a packager wants to invest > > time to maintain a compat package, let him do. > > Well, one of the reasons we're making hoops for people to jump through > is that we don't want to clutter the distribution with compat packages. > This encourages upstream (and package maintainers) to just continue > using the compat packages, rather than porting to the new, improved ones. > > This is why I think that this is a valid reason: > > * Adobe ProprietaryDocumentFormat Reader needs this library to run. Why would that be valid.. if all that requires this there is absolutely no reason to have a -compat package. It's Adobe' problem to fix it. They don't play by the rules so no cookies for them. - David
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