Theodore Tso <ty...@mit.edu> writes: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:50:50PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Joerg was also advocating one ddeb per source package in the summary >> message that he sent about the ftp-master approach, and Emilio has >> mentioned a few times that ftp-master needs to buy in on that decision >> (which I agree with). I'm not sure if I'm missing some concern from >> the ftp-master side. > So if we have one ddeb per source package, which generates multiple > binary .debs for different libraries --- say, libext2fs, libcom_err, and > libss, to take a completely random example --- and the user installs > different versions of said libraries coming from different versions of > the source package, won't there be a problem if there is only a single > ddeb per source package? I assume you can't install multiple ddebs > coming from different source packages at the same time, since the > pathnames would conflict, right? It's possible with the binary-id method of storing debug symbols the paths wouldn't conflict, but yes, this is one of my concerns. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
