On 20/12/23 21:21, Roland Knall wrote:
Am 20.12.2023 um 22:02 schrieb João Valverde <j@xxxxxx>:
On 20/12/23 20:52, Roland Knall wrote:
So people can link to our libraries to write other projets? And expect it to work reliably? That is news to me. I have made this question many times over the years but I guess I was not worthy of a clear answer until now.
I am not saying they should do it or that I appreciate it happening. All I am saying is that it happens and is happening and we did not put a stop to it in time. Should they expect it to be reliable? Of course not as I answered also in other threads on this matter. But at the same time I see no point in having them hit a wall face on, rather work in such cases where we know about it, to ensure them moving to a saner approach.
What?! I'm back to confused... So you don't like the situation, you say.
Here's a thought.. maybe if Debian didn't publish system libraries in
our name with these stupid symbol lists then people wouldn't get the
crazy idea they could use these libraries that were published for this
exact purpose and build their own software on top of it and expect it to
work reliable and not break every other release, like most other
non-Wireshark Debian libraries.
I wonder what could be done about that. I guess Debian would get that
clue pretty darn quick if we weren't mirroring their broken setup in our
repository, thereby sanctioning it.
I don't know, call me crazy. Or did I misunderstand again? Sure seems
complicated to get my head around this for such a simple topic as is
software release and distribution.