Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec  3, 2007 at 17:33:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Every successful call to pkg-config would fill in a file, let’s say
> debian/pkgconfig.deps, that would in the end contain:
> 
>         # pkgconfig_file required_version dev_package shared_package
>         version
>         x11 1.0.2 libx11-dev libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7
>         gtk+2.0 2.8 libgtk2.0-dev libgtk2.0-0 2.12.2-1
>         gconf 2.0 libgconf2-dev libgconf2-4 2.20.1-1
> (The package version is needed because you need to extract epochs.)
> 
> In the end, shlibs generation would be able to generate the correct
> dependency, based on the highest of the three versions:
>      1. the version required by upstream;
>      2. the version required by the build-deps;
>      3. the version generated by the symbols file.
> 
> Plus, in this specific case, it would make the build fail because the
> Debian maintainer has forgotten to bump the libx11-dev build-dependency
> to 2:1.0.2, which is deadly useful information.
> 
Why would you depend on any particular version of libx11-6?  The
build-dep on libx11-dev >= 1.0.2 I can understand, but the runtime
dependency has nothing to do with this.

Cheers,
Julien