Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 14:56 +0200, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
> Tomasz Paweł Gajc <phenomenal@(protected):
>
> > > no requires on libfirefox3 or anything it contains. Are automatic
> > > library dependencies not working for packages in /testing or
> > > something?
> >
> > Well i have idea to drop that stupid libification and do this:
> >
> > firefox - only binaries
> >
> > firefox-base - a new name for libified old package
> >
> > or
> >
> > firefox-bin - binaries
> >
> > and firefox - old libified package.
> >
> > There are plenty of possibilities, but i think that libification is
> > useless, and somehow this should be fixed.
>
> This will break updates when not all packages are rebuild at the same
> time (eg: cooker).
>
> The real bug is the _abuse_ of major bumping upstream for no good
> reasons.
>
> It's obvious they're _NOT_ changing the _ABI_ when releasing a
> security update and thus bumping the so major is an abuse.

You obviously don't know mozilla and firefox enough ;)

> It's just gratuitous ABI breakage. If only they would enable just
> backporting the small security patches... :-(

They don't commit to ABI stability.

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