Michael Wardle, on 2003-02-04, 11:19, you wrote: > I notice that the libfam package name was recently changed (I think from > libfam0 to libfam0cxxx). I suspect that your KDE 3 packages depend on the > old package name (libfam0) and the GNOME 2 packages depend on the new package > name (libfam0c102). I also suspect that the new package superseeds or > obsoletes (or whatever the Debian package term is) the old one, so installing > libfam0c102 is attempting to remove libfam0.
That is correct. We are currently in a transition to GCC 3.2 as default compiler. As the C++ compiler introduces a new ABI in contrast to our previous (2.95) compiler. That brings in the need to recompile all C++ libraries and applications depending on them. Because the new libraries are incompatible with the old ones we have to change the packages' names. Please see [0] for more information on this. > If this is the case, you might like to see if there's a flag you can use to > dpkg or apt-get to make it install them side-by-side (of course this is not > an ideal solution). You should probably confirm whether what I have stated > is correct and then inform the maintainer of the KDE packages that the > dependency name has changed. One should wait until fresh KDE3 packages hit unstable. Unstable is not stable btw. so that dependency breakage is not that unusual. Hope that helps, Joerg [0] http://people.debian.org/~rmurray/c++transition.html -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 AFC7 315E 657A F318 57A3 7FBD 51CF 8417
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