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

[Bill Allombert]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 01:41:02AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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

Bad faith ? No I do not think so.

> 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...

... and neither of you bothered to ask me.
libjpeg62 is required for compatibility with the LSB.
libjpeg62-dev is required for building LSB packages.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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