[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Bug#396640: pciutils frozen

[Tim Dijkstra]

Hi Steve,

You wrote in the 396640 bug log:

> Indeed, libpci.a now depends on libz, but pciutils-dev doesn't have a
> dependency reflecting this -- nor, for that matter, is there any facility in
> pciutils-dev that lets consumers of this library know what other libs one
> needs to link against!  Seeing now that pciutils-dev *only* provides a
> static library, it seems that this is going to require quite a few source
> changes in the reverse-dependencies, so I'm pre-emptively freezing pciutils
> in etch at its current version to avoid adding 11 new release-critical bugs
> to etch unnecessarily.

Does this mean all reverse depends are effectively frozen as well? I was hoping
I could do one more upload which fixes some small bugs (translation, removing one 
spurious file) in uswsusp. Also there a serious bug (#397214) opened against 
my package, for which I maybe need to do an upload. I'm not sure that it is a 
real serious bug yet, though.

grts Tim