Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andreas Metzler] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there a way to force a specific library version known in > > ${shlibs:Depends} ? > > Why would you want to do that? Don't know about the original poster, but here's my reason: I want to reduce user confusion. Most of the interesting bits of su

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Usually because the binaries shipped with the package use internal, >> undocumented interfaces that are not available to the rest of the world >> and hence are not considered part of the SONAME (i.e., up

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Is there a way to force a specific library version known in >>> ${shlibs:Depends} ? > >>> Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to >>> force the libra

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:13, Steve Langasek wrote: > Now, the clean solution for those cases when there's a compelling > reason to implement this bad idea: see what dpkg-shlibdeps(1) has to > say about shlibs.local. One minor gripe about dpkg-shlibdeps(1)... If I look at that page, I get redire

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I've tried to do this before and encountered: >>See dpkg-shlibdeps(1) for details of the format of shared library >>dependency files. >> which of course is recursive and that man pa

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now, the clean solution for those cases when there's a compelling reason > > to implement this bad idea: see what dpkg-shlibdeps(1) has to say about > > shlibs.local. > > I've tried t

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, the clean solution for those cases when there's a compelling reason > to implement this bad idea: see what dpkg-shlibdeps(1) has to say about > shlibs.local. I've tried to do this before and encountered: See dpkg-shlibdeps(1) for details of t

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 12:18:58PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks, > Is there a way to force a specific library version known in > ${shlibs:Depends} ? > Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to > force the library to be upgraded when the primary binary packa

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Is there a way to force a specific library version known in >>> ${shlibs:Depends} ? >>> Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to >>> force the library

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi folks, > > Is there a way to force a specific library version known in > ${shlibs:Depends} ? > > Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to > force the library to be upgraded when the primary binary package is > updated. > > However, > Depend

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is there a way to force a specific library version known in >> ${shlibs:Depends} ? >> Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to >> force the library to be upgraded when the primary binary package i

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel Stone: > Why? If your library's ABI is changing with every revision, you should > be bumping the soversion. Or you shouldn't provide a DSO at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:18:58 +0200]: > I could abandon the use of ${shlibs:Depends}, and list each dependencies > manually, but this is a bit annoying. No, it is not annoying. It is an utterly incorrect thing to do, so better forget that the idea ever crossed your mind. ;-)

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to force a specific library version known in > ${shlibs:Depends} ? > Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to > force the library to be upgraded when the primary binary package is > updated. Why would you want to do that?

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 12:18:58PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to force a specific library version known in > ${shlibs:Depends} ? > > Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to > force the library to be upgraded when the primary binary package is > upd

Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread rocheml
Hi folks, Is there a way to force a specific library version known in ${shlibs:Depends} ? Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to force the library to be upgraded when the primary binary package is updated. However, Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, libmypackage1 (= ${Sourc