soname change policy proposal

Tue Jun 27 21:42:24 UTC 2006

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:59 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Ville Skyttä wrote:

> please reread the little howto I wrote,

No thanks, I understood it well enough the first time, and my opinions
have not changed.

> > - Q: How do compat-<foo> become purged on distro upgrades?  [...]
> 
> EWONTFIX, we have this issue with core provided compat-xxxx packages
> already.

Seriously?  Since when a problem somewhere is a good reason to willingly
keep inflicting it elsewhere when simple and effective solutions exist?