[tahoe-dev] adding dependencies, raising version requirements

[Greg Troxel]

David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah at jacaranda.org> writes:

> Greg Troxel wrote:
>> "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <zooko at zooko.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>>>> Sure, that's fine - but I missed the announcement here that the version
>>>> needed for tahoe had increased.
>>>
>>> I didn't mention it on the list! I guess from now on we should post to
>>> this list whenever we add dependencies or increase version
>>> requirements of dependencies.
>> 
>> yes, you definitely should.  we packagers need to know - dependency
>> changes should also be noted in NEWS, and in my mind are a big deal (not
>> saying you shouldn't do it, just that it should be loud).
>
> Dependency changes had been included in NEWS for previous releases, but
> we seem to have forgotten it for 1.8.0 :-(. This is now fixed on trunk.

Thanks.  In this case it was particularly surprising because the change
happened between 1.8.0c3 and 1.8.0.
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