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On Sunday, February 13, 2011 15:16:58 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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> Il giorno dom, 13/02/2011 alle 14.22 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: |
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> > thus it's a lot more sane in the long term to assume that packages |
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> > support the latest rather than patching everyone (and being forced to |
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> > carry those custom patches indefinitely) to set the ceiling at the last |
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> > "known" working version. |
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> Okay so what would you think of installing the headers and .pc files for |
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> the "previous ABI" slotted packages? It would extend a bit more the |
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> non-latest, but wouldn't stray far from what we've done up to now, and |
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> we'd have a proof of concept to show upstream how to implements the |
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> fallbacks... then we could probably talk some of them to do just that. |
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i'm not sure how this is really any different from an arbitrary number of |
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parallel slots. |
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-mike |
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