[Valgrind-developers] VG 2.1.x in Debian...

[Josef W. <Jos...@gm...>]

Hi,

as I have a bug report from a Calltree user for debian/unstable, which 
obviously only includes VG 2.1.0, I have a question...

Was VG 2.1.x supposed to be released in distributions at all? Of course, we 
can't prohibit it, but should suggest a stable version to be distributed (i.
e. 2.0.x, 2.2.x,...).

My assumption was that VG 2.1.x is unstable and more or less kind of a better 
CVS-Snapshot. This is reflected by the Skin/Tool-API version number, which is 
*not* incremented in the 2.1.x series. So I never had in mind to support a 
2.1.x release for Calltree, and that's because of the tool-API versioning 
policy not even possible in a sane way.
But if VG 2.1.x is the only Valgrind version delivered with a distribution, 
you can't install Calltree, because there is no version for VG 2.1.x.

Is it OK to suggest to the Debian guys to downgrade to VG 2.0.x ?
(Of course, they optionally can include 2.1.x as separate package that is not 
conflicting with the stable VG package).

Josef