[Pkg-phototools-devel] libgphoto2_2.4.10.1-4_i386.changes is NEW

[David Paleino]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:13:23 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:35:34 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 
> >> Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> >> I am asking since there is a non-neglible cost of this transition, 15
> >> rc-bugs, making backports harder, etc.
> 
> > Yes, you're missing that with no SONAME included in the package
> > name, in case of a libgphoto2-3, a binNMU would be sufficient,
> > instead of a sourceful upload.
> [...]
> 
> That is exactly what I try to say. By renaming from libgphoto2-2-dev
> to libgphoto2-dev _now_ instead of when the soname bump happens we are
> exchanging a sourceful uploads of rdeps *now* with a sourceful uploads
> of rdeps *later*. It is purely a timing change. (And if the soname
> bump never happened a unnecessary transition.)

Sure, if the SONAME bump never happens, it's an unnecessary transition. But if
more than one bump happens, we saved lots of transitions.

I agree that this should have been done when the package first appeared in
place of gphoto2-dev.

David

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