Hello, in the list of things that we can do to make it more easy to backport packages, there's one important item: have a finer-grained system for generating dependencies on shared libraries. The system should have historical knowledges of symbols exported by libraries. Then when generating dependencies on an given package, it should check which symbols are used and what minimal version of the library provided them.
Please find a sort of specification in the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/ImprovedDpkgShlibdeps Please check it out and share your comments. I'm not an expert of libraries and I may have missed some important points. In particular, your opinion is welcome concerning the "outstanding issues" listed in the documents. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
