From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikita Karetnikov Subject: Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:36:59 -0500 Message-ID: <87hamnekw5.fsf@karetnikov.org> References: <201212220956.51651.andreas@enge.fr> <871ue78q49.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4m7lcav.fsf@karetnikov.org> <87han34dww.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52361) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TthbH-0000bo-IC for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:37:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TthbB-0001J0-Bh for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:36:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87han34dww.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "(unknown date)") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > For Automake, I don=E2=80=99t think it makes sense, though. Or did you h= ave > anything special in mind? Dependencies. For instance, you're updating Foo that requires Bar. (There is Bar-41 in the repo, but this version of Foo requires 42. Also, Bar-42 has some backward incompatible changes.) If you update Bar to 42, it will break other packages. I suggest to keep three versions: the latest version, second-to-last, and third-to-last. Nikita --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQ8D/BAAoJEM+IQzI9IQ38AacP/00oCzFtvhxunjgK7NRiqM9P z4kGw4dpxfFjjErSS1gm5vZeUlFCzccAvCQdMvHEEiVpDxX8yB4PPTZkH4M7+fHl DZ89dLXT3ITTMUVjZmNKAttYli+jVBnEe7VFR6RbaxKEmO9JS2ASKgduM1Jx+kKO pvOd2vQU+ATGJCv+AGjZdhqO6GJIzZgLTq0XbkfbpMkOpOgEWujEnriOfZq21cWW MTRiVXFHbKn57FfjaieJfXjF35MKqh1na924A3e3Q7d3/Ue0mfVQM+2d+rB5Xc9s B9aCZxyY1qOjkrgyBuP1xeHxaBGRRxvHftsbJw4xsQgIt0/Vum88qHzLK0W31o8a Dx2z72JfXujeToiHrraE/5pOUzrXGiUSAmQxVjgKiqKiRkjTEJXzBW0jn8gMpSCd da2A2TMw+KFlpOCvgcMED4f2jL51+oguy/60I65eWXuUrSWaaJh1ZZKd8wG+cxgJ rbPy9iLy05ar+fPo79j3JTUNlmEgOsxaoJmS+pwt4gywJAq9viqwb4dBZpROevnp mj40ji18hbJkeVdUH1sfqhO7kbc4qbhD1LW3qONrENo0/aWu6ApBNDc50emI+JLK 6INkc7zfjx8t3KRuM8nmMD7eh7KQZQWYS2SPDAY5KqJVy49TE9OZbRY6s+fsncX3 N5GDr8bFqUyBg28R771n =SFI4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--