Lack of deprecation period for short option changes
James Westby
jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Wed Jan 10 20:12:44 GMT 2007
On (10/01/07 15:08), Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Well, then there is more than one problem with the way the package is
> being maintained, because you should not be able to install an old
> bzrtools with a new bzr.
>
> I'm diligent about keeping bzrtools up to date. Bzrtools has never
> lagged bzr by more than a week, and my current policy is to release
> bzrtools when bzr goes into Release Candidate phase.
You are a great maintainer for a very useful package, I'm not trying to
suggest otherwise. I am just trying to cope with the situation that we
have in Debian where the maintainer has not been very reliable recently.
>
> Packaging errors are not my fault. Trying disable my safeguards so that
> you can install untested combinations of bzrtools and bzr is the wrong
> way to go.
If you are sure that bzrtools can't work with a mismatched version of
bzr why don't you just disable the plugin entirely?
>
> > I'm not sure of the value of telling the simple package user of the
> > difference when it requires action on the maintainer's part to fix it.
>
> If the package maintainer was doing their job, you'd never be able to
> install the wrong versions in the first place.
>
We agree on that.
Thanks,
James
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