Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition

From	Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition
Date	2021-05-27 16:20 +0200
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* Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> [210527 06:19]:
> The one non-cosmetic reason I can think of why transitional packages
> are potentially bad is that they aren't removed automatically, so systems
> that have been upgraded many times can end up with a lot of transitional
> packages;

If transitional packages either had a debtag or a control file field
that identified them, then tools like deborphan could easily be made to
find and remove them, perhaps ensuring that the replacement package was
appropriately marked as manual or automatic.

Once that is common, apt and friends could be made smarter as that
particular itch bothered the responsible maintainers.

...Marvin

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Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2021-05-24 20:20 +0200
  Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Timo Röhling <timo@gaussglocke.de> - 2021-05-24 20:50 +0200
    Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2021-05-24 21:00 +0200
  Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2021-05-25 19:50 +0200
    Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2021-05-26 00:20 +0200
      Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-05-26 11:50 +0200
    Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2021-05-26 01:50 +0200
      Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2021-05-26 18:00 +0200
        Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2021-05-26 19:20 +0200
          Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-05-27 00:30 +0200
            Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2021-05-27 08:40 +0200
              Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-05-27 12:20 +0200
                Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> - 2021-05-27 16:20 +0200
                Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-05-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> - 2021-05-27 19:50 +0200
                Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> - 2021-05-27 19:50 +0200
                Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> - 2021-05-27 17:00 +0200
                Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-05-28 18:20 +0200
                Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> - 2021-06-01 17:20 +0200
              Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2021-05-27 20:20 +0200
                Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2021-05-27 20:30 +0200
            automated pkg set installation and upgrade tests (was Re: Planning  for libidn shared library version transition) Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2021-05-27 16:50 +0200
    Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2021-07-27 11:10 +0200
      Re: Planning for libidn shared library version transition Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2021-07-28 10:20 +0200

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