Re: gtk-engines photographed eating children

[Andrew Johnson <ajgenius ajgenius us>]

Ok on this I have to ask, why on earth would you have versioned this way
to begin with?

Each gtk engine has its own version, what happens if gnome-themes had
stopped providing one of these engines anyway(not just moved, removed),
would you have continued following gnome-themes versions for new
packages of the engines even as the discrepency between the official
number and gnome-themes got greater?

Just because the meta-source-package has changed doesn't mean the
version has.

Mist is what, at 0.7? This wouldn't have changed anything from that
perspective except maybe a patch number on the package...

I have no idea how to fix this problem, but I don't see that it has
anything to do with the move to gtk-engines except in that it exposed a
faulty way of numbering the engines to begin with.

Andrew

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 03:27 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Sean Middleditch">
> 
> > > ... but when themes move between differently-versioned source packages
> > > that are delivered as separate binary packages, things break.
> > 
> > Maybe you should give a concrete example of packages (and their structure)
> > that this happens for...
> 
> Was:
> 
>   gnome-themes 2.9.x -> gtk2-engines-mist 2.9.x
>                         gtk2-engines-thinice 2.9.x
> 
> Now:
> 
>   gtk-engines 2.6.x -> gtk2-engines-mist 2.6.x
>                        gtk2-engines-thinice 2.6.x
> 
> Limiting to two binary packages for simplicity's sake.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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Andrew Johnson <ajgenius ajgenius us>