Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On lördagen den 5 januari 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> There are no scripts that would be compatible with multiple versions of >> Pike? > Hmmm ... well, there probably exist such scripts, but they'd > (theoretically) have to be able to work with all packages that can > provide /usr/bin/pike, old as well as future, and that can't be > guaranteed. Fortunately major Pike releases aren't very frequent... I'm now treating pike like the other versioned scripts, which means that packages that use just /usr/bin/pike require a dependency on one or more of the known pike versions (currently pike7.6 | pike7.6-core | pike7.7 | pike7.7-core). It requires updating the known versions periodically, but the new structure should be much easier to maintain. And presumably if someone uses /usr/bin/pike and has a dependency on pike7.6 | pike7.7, they know what they're doing. The known versions list in lintian is *only* used for allowable dependencies for the unversioned interpreter. If you use /usr/bin/pike8.4 or something else lintian doesn't know about, it will assume that means you need a dependency on pike8.4 | pike8.4-core without needing to know about the version number in advance. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
