Bug#791195: fixed in lttoolbox 3.3.2~r61000-3.1

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Feb 3 10:34:22 UTC 2016


On Wed, Feb  3, 2016 at 10:46:02 +0100, Tino Didriksen wrote:

> On 3 February 2016 at 02:57, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:00:44 +0000 Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>
> > wrote:
> > >  lttoolbox (3.3.2~r61000-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
> > >  .
> > >    * Non-maintainer upload.
> > >    * Rename library packages for g++5 ABI transition (closes: 791195).
> >
> > This change was recently reverted and I'm not convinced that this was a
> > good idea.
> 
> 
> 
> That was my doing, on the basis that the transition should never have
> happened.
> 
> Because I wasn't properly subscribed to this bug (due to using my mail@
> address which procmail can't handle), I never knew the transition was
> pushed through against my wishes, until I went to update lttoolbox to a
> newer release.
> 
> There are only 2 other packages that depend on lttoolbox: apertium and
> apertium-lex-tools, and I maintain those as well. All 3 are part of the
> same upstream project, and are updated together if there are breaking
> changes.
> 
> And because lttoolbox 3.3 was not even in testing at the time, nothing
> outside my control could have built up dependencies on it, and indeed
> nothing has.
> 
> The v5 transition was entirely unnecessary for this package, and I very
> strongly want it gone.
> 
You haven't given a single good reason to revert the change.  Maybe you
would have preferred it didn't, but you're coming 6 months late to that
party.

Cheers,
Julien



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