Bug#679542: Each upload (even -2 -3 etc) is a transition?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Modestas Vainius <modax at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: libav
> Version: 6:0.8.3-4
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> could you explain why each -2 -3 etc. upload bumps shlibs to the current debian
> revision as opposed to the current upstream version? This effectly makes each
> debian revision of libav a small transition. For example, now amarok [1] will
> have to wait and depend on libav to migrate testing for no good reason at all.

I actually only do this if the updated package introduces new symbols.
If this happens on a regular basis, then it is surely not intended.

Unfortunately, symbol files won't work as they cannot produce
application packages with alternative dependencies (cf. the
libavcodec53 | libavcodec-extra-53 dependency in the application
packages).

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regards,
    Reinhard