Bug#976836: libgnutls30: 3.7.0-3 fails to connect on debian.ethz.ch

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 09:58:06AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>...
> or revert that madness
> of forcing all your reverse depends to depend on gnutls28 just because
> there are a few new enum members they _might_ have used - it's doing
> more harm then good, and it's not standard practice.

This is actually good practice, if in doubt our dependencies should 
always err on the safe side.

Imagine software like apt would have gotten a too low dependency and 
then migrated before gnutls to testing.

Or even worse, due to a too low dependency apt would have been upgraded
during the first step of an oldstable->stable upgrade, but not gnutls.

In this specific case the higher dependency might not be required for
apt specifically, but really bad practice would be risking breakage
for our users by not setting the dependency strict enough.

cu
Adrian