major libgda and libgnomedb upgrade notice

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 13:34 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 12:15 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> >> Also since we seem to be getting personal: I don't find your attitude 
> >> very helpfull or constructive.
> > What do find non-constructive?
> > 
> 
> Afaik I've stated nowhere in all my previous mails on this subject that 
> I would move on no matter what, yet you keep writing mails as if I've 
> stated that this upgrade is going in even it makes other packages fail. 
> This is wrong and unfair asumption on your side, which makes the wording 
> of your mails unpleasant, which I find non-constructive.
> 
>  > Initially I said: You should provide a compat-package.
>  >
>  > In your reply you provided sufficent evidence not having understood the
>  > rationale behind all this. Therefore I could not avoid to become more
>  > direct.
>  >
> 
> As I already said, I'm currently inventorying what packages besides 
> gnumeric depend on libgda/gnomedb, if those packages can be updated 
> simultaneously then there is _no_ need for a compat package.
Again, this is irrelevant.

You are shipping library packages containing shared libraries.
Users will be using them, whether you know about them or not, whether
these packages are publically available or not.

=> whatever you do, you will always break something somewhere, if you
replace one package by an incompatible package.

=> The only clean solution is to always provide compat-packages or not
upgrading the package.

> Anyways I've spend more then enough time on this fruitless discussion. 
> I'll do my very best to coordinate this with other packagers and to 
> avoid any breakage, I cannot do more then that.
You can: Ship compat packages.

Ralf