gmerlin-avdecoder redux

[Felipe Sateler]

On 15/08/10 07:13, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:33:51AM +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>> On 08/15/2010 09:00 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 21:30:32 (CEST), IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, the point of symbols file is actually to review the list of
>>> symbols manually, so automatically updating it really defeats its
>>> purpose.
>>>
>>> If (and only if) you are really sure that no other package actually
>>> uses the removed symbols, then it's OK to remove them.
>>
>> well, libgmerlin-avdec1 has never been in Debian, so no other package
>> can possibly depend on symbols in this package. so i guess, we are
>> safe on this side.
>>
>> otoh, libgmerlin-avdec1 has been in marillat's debian-multimedia.
>> packages that used this package and depend on the symbols, will break.
>>
>> how is this normally dealt with?
> 
> In my opinion Debian is upstream to Marillats archive, Ubuntu,
> Skolelinux and a lot of others, and if any of those start being
> "creative" and do things not in Debian, then it is their own headache to
> untangle themselves again if it clashes with what Debian decides to do
> later on.
> 
> In other words, it makes sense to me to have it in mind now that we
> happen to know about this issue, but if we cannot solve a clash with a
> downstream distro easily and without carrying odd baggage in the package
> afterwards, then we should let it clash and leave it to downstream to
> solve it at their end.  Perhaps even be nice and inform them that we are
> aware of this clash (but without apologizing - it really is their own
> fault IMO).
> 
> ...but that's me.  I can very well imagine others here having different
> opinion, if not about Marillat then about Ubuntu.  We had a recent
> discussion about derivative-specific package dependencies with the
> result that I will keep baggage in the source (but not in binary
> packages) regarding "firefox" (shipped in Ubuntu but not Debian) using
> dpkg-vendor.

Note that there is a not so slight difference between Marillat's archive
and Ubuntu. Namely, that in this team we have people that work on both
debian and ubuntu (which is why it makes sense to do stuff for ubuntu
too). Marillat does not work with us, and a while ago effectively worked
against us.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler