[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#763360: Bug#754988: Bug#763360: libjpeg-turbo is hijacking binaries from other source packages

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 30/09/14 11:32, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:55:16PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> Bill,
>>
>> I am very sorry that I have not Cced everything related to the
>> libjpeg-transition
>> to you. I have honestly believed that you and everyone else involved was
>> following the transition plan as mentioned in #717076#225. As for the
>> takover
>> of the libjpeg62* packages it was discussed in the transition plan bug
>> #754988.
>
> The CTTE made it clear I was only required to remove the Provides: libjpeg-dev
> It did not authorise you to hijack the libjpeg8 and libjpeg62 binaries, and
> you should not have made a plan that required it.
>
> Hijacking binary packages that are still provided by other sources is extremely
> crude. At the minimum, you should have waited for me to stop providing them
> before uploading to unstable.
>
> Please abide by the CTTE decision and revert that.  You cannot ask me to obey
> the CTTE decision while blatantly disregarding it.
>
> You have been bullying me from the start, but this tops it all.

This comment makes me sad...

I don't know how not "hijacking" a package that is in old libs, that should have 
been removed from the archive a long time ago, and that is not going to be 
installable anyway even if it's not "hijacked" is going to be any useful, but oh 
well...

You seem to think that Ondřej did this in bad faith, but it just seemed like the 
sensible thing to do, and I didn't see any problem with the proposed plan. After 
all, libjpeg62 had been long deprecated in favor of libjpeg8. Neither of us 
thought you would care about libjpeg62 anymore...

But I guess libjpeg-turbo's package could be renamed to libjpeg62-turbo, and 
then have all the archive depend on that, and make libjpeg62-turbo conflict 
against libjpeg62... Not sure how that's going to be any better than the current 
situation, but maybe you can enlighten me...

Sincerely,
Emilio