[csw-maintainers] Package incompatibility, any suggestions?

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:11:18AM +0100, Roger Håkansson wrote:
> I've rebuild gedit 1.14.4 and I can't see any reason why libnet should  
> be needed. It must have been some dependant library that used libnet in  
> the past.

nope. direct link.
dump -Lv says it is directly "needed".

> Well, what we could do is first re-release 1.0.2 with SONAME set, then  
> re-release all dependant packages,

THAT aint gonna happen in the next 12 months :)


> I know that this might be a undesirable way, but maybe the "cleanest".

no, it's prefectly desirable.
the problem is, it's just not REALISTIC :-)