[SHR testing] intone requires different e17 lib name

Sander van Grieken sander at 3v8.net
Sun Aug 23 20:45:08 CEST 2009


On Saturday 22 August 2009 21:02:22 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
> On 8/22/09, Marcel <tanuva at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 22.08.2009, 20:48 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Krzyszkowiak:
> >> On 8/22/09, Marcel <tanuva at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> > G'evening,
> >> >
> >> > I'm fiddling with SHR (some way to get paroli on it? >.<) and found
> >> > that the opkg.org intone 0.66 package is linked against
> >> > libe*-ver-svn-02.so.0 sonames but SHR testing contains
> >> > libe*-ver-pre-01.so.0 libs. Could you do another special SHR testing
> >> > build?
> >> > (Symlinking all of them to -svn-02 is another solution, but kinda
> >> > messy, too...)
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Marcel
> >>
> >> Could you use supported distro? SHR unstable is the way to go - it
> >> works even more stable than testing. And Intone is there by default :P
> >
> > SHR testing is unsupported, but unstable is? And the latter even more
> > stable than testing? You SHR folks are strange... Okay, lemme reflash...
>
> There are just too less hands to work, and maintaining -testing is
> hard work. We hope to release new testing image soon, and support it
> constantly. But noone knows when it'll finally happen...

Why not just ditch the current testing and stable branches and branch anew from unstable? 
This just keeps tripping up newcomers to SHR (I have seen at least 10-15 of these mails in 
the last few months?). At the very least, remove those branches that shouldn't be used 
right now anyway.

Of course I agree that it's a lot of work to maintain multiple branches, but the least 
that should be done is to avoid partial merges (which takes effort) and instead do full 
merges (essentialy copies) from unstable revisions that are 'known to be good' (or as good 
as possible :). This way users (non-devs) can keep pace with recent fixes while at the same 
time avoiding the occasional breakage that occurs in unstable.

Sander



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