From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Version naming
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:47:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvegu8wx79.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738ap3qgq.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:42:13 -0500")
> As a result, on the Debian side, each major increment does represent
> more work: increased load on the mirrors, administrative overhead of
> package migrations, removals, etc.
The real underlying cause is dpkg's inability to handle simultaneous
installs of different versions of the same package. As a result, you
get more work, as you point out, and I can't easily keep around all the
versions I'd like to keep.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-16 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-29 17:19 Version naming Stefan Monnier
2014-09-30 4:55 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30 7:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-10 7:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-11 0:28 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-11 11:18 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-15 7:13 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-15 10:46 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-30 14:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-30 14:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-15 22:42 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-16 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-16 6:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-16 13:51 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-16 17:19 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24 1:08 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-24 15:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-10-16 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 21:31 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-17 1:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-17 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-18 21:20 ` Stephen Leake
2014-10-18 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-19 2:18 ` Stephen Leake
2014-10-19 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-19 17:53 ` Stephen Leake
2014-10-20 1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-12 22:27 ` Jens K. Loewe
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