[Bug 197198] Review Request: ntop

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 21:24 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> >> c.f. info libtool 'Release numbers'
> >>
> >> Upstream is using -release, which is a bad idea.
> > 
> > Exactly. In that case I believe it is not that annoying since there won't 
> > be any -devel pacakge, still it may get annoying for upstream.
> > 
> 
> That's what I was thinking, it not that big of a problem, since the 
> libraries aren't split out to devel sub-package, but I was not certain I 
> was on the right page. Hence my asking for clarification :)
> 
> So should this be fixed or not?
If you don't ship a *-devel package, there should not be any need to
change anything.

>  How does one fix these sorts of problems?
In general, by contacting upstream and teaching them about their
mistakes. If they are capable to learn - fine.

If not, you can chose:
- Not to ship a package (I usually refuse to approve such packages)
- If it's an important package, bite the bullet and ship their crap, but
to apply a very conservative update policy - In most cases, this implies
not to ship any update during a release)
- If it's a non-important package, change the sources (cf. to 
info libtool, how to supply a proper library versioning)

Ralf