sound distribution practices

Allison Randal allison at parrot.org
Sun Apr 8 17:13:37 UTC 2012


On 04/08/2012 10:01 AM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> 
> The parrotapi-* thing would avoid an update of the parrot package, but there's
> nothing that would avoid an update of, say, libdata-dumper-parrot, and it would
> leave the system with an older version of parrot and a newer version of the
> bytecode library, which, as Patrick pointed out, are not compatible. If the
> library depends on parrotapi-* too, it is not updated until every other
> parrotapi-* reverse dependencies are ready to be updated.

Then +1 to updating all the binary packages that contain compiled
bytecode, with a Depends on parrotapi-*.

Allison


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