Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:46:07PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote:
> Right, it does not force the latest, only the version that is
> installed on the machine it runs on.
Not quite. The shlibs file just declares that a package which includes
a program linking against, say, libfoo.so.0 should depend on a package
called, say, libfoo0. The possibility to "version" that dependency
exists and is actively used. A common example is when a library fixes
a bug affecting its clients. A versioned dependency is added to make
sure that the newly compiled packages can't be installed with the buggy
versions of the library. That's just one example.
There are only a few pathological cases where the shlibs file forces
newly compiled packags to use the "lastest" release of the library
package.
> If whatever library versions are present at the time of building are
> defined as the minimum requirements, doesn't that mean that packages
> which are in stable today would not even be accepted into testing if
> they were rebuilt?
That could happen, yes. Some hours ago I uploaded a package which is
for all _practical_ purposes an identical copy of the package in
stable. It will probably remain stuck in unstable for a long while.
Marcelo
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