On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:11:52PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > What do you think of such a system? Please share your ideas and > > comments! > > I think there is a problem using build dependencies for that purpose: > There are dozens of reasons why you want to build-depend on libfoo-dev > >= version that do NOT involve working around bugs in the library at > runtime. There are so many that it would just pollute a lot of > dependencies for a few interesting cases, and would sadly end up going > in the opposite way we are currently heading for with the addition of > dpkg-gensymbols. > > Now, the thing is you can pretty much already do some kind of trick to > do what you want, with shlibs.local. The only problem with shlibs.local > is that is forces to use the shlibs in this file and only these, so if > the package's shlibs tell to depend on a newer version, it won't be > taken into account.
I also explained that you can manually add a dependency in debian/control. dpkg-gencontrol will simplify the dependency as he want (by keeping the stricter one). However this requires a manual intervention of the maintainer while Loïc hoped that using the build-dep it would require no change by the maintainer. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
