Lack of deprecation period for short option changes

[John Arbash Meinel]

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James Westby wrote:
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> 
>> What I mean is that the bzrtools 0.11 package should depend on bzr ( >=
>> 0.11 ) and bzr ( << 0.12 ).  That used to be the policy, but I see it
>> depends on bzr ( > 0.9 ) instead.
>>
> 
> That also seems reasonable, and is going to put a lot more pressure on
> the maintainer to update in a timely manner. Maybe they don't want to
> commit themselves to this.
> 
> The solution here is obviously to have an attentive maintainer for the
> package. I'm not sure if this is going to happen soon though.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 

What might work better is if the maintainer of 'bzr' also maintains
'bzrtools'. Since they do release at the same time.

I know for Ubuntu we have the same maintainer (Etienne Goyer).

John
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