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[PATCH gnome-team 00/12] Hopefully the last world rebuild

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Message #97 received at 67473 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>, 67473 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: rg <at> raghavgururajan.name, maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH gnome-team v2 09/13] gnu: Remove libsoup-minimal.
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:22:49 +0100

Am Mittwoch, dem 29.11.2023 um 07:25 +0100 schrieb Vivien Kraus:
> Le mercredi 29 novembre 2023 à 06:21 +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler a
> écrit :
> > Still, there were
> > other users of libsoup-minimal over libsoup, so we might want to
> > keep
> > the variable even as we update both to a new, shared version.
> I’m tempted to say the users of libsoup-minimal used to depend on
> libsoup <at> 2, so they put libsoup-minimal-2, but then the package
> required
> libsoup <at> 3, and they just removed the "-2" suffix. Is there another
> reason packages would want a doc-less version of libsoup?
Closure size?

> I can make another series revision where libsoup-minimal is a
> deprecated-package pointing to libsoup, or a doc-less libsoup <at> 3. I
> think the deprecated-package solution is the most useful. What do you
> think?
I'd really like a second opinion here.  All I can say is that I don't
really trust my own gut feeling here.

Cheers

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