Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

Felipe Sateler fsateler at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 17:09:33 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:50, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:23:03PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:

>> Also, if my understanding is correct, jack2 is ABI compatible with jack1,
>> so no library transition is needed.
>
> That was my impression too.  If so, why don't we ship *both*?
>
> Let's rename jackd → jackd1, package jackd2, and let both binary packages
> provide jackd as a virtual package.

There are a bunch of packages depending on jackd (>= something), so
this approach would break those apps. A metapackage depending on
jackd1 | jackd2 would work, though.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler



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