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Re: X Strike Force XFree86 SVN commit: rev 780 - people/branden/xlibs-and-xbase-clients-split/debian



On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:11:13PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Enforce exact versioned dependencies of -dev library packages on their
> > shared counterparts, per Debian Policy section 8.5.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > @@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@
> >  Package: xlibmesa-gl-dev
> >  Section: libdevel
> >  Architecture: any
> > -Depends: xlibmesa-gl, xlibs-dev, libc6-dev | libc-dev
> > +Depends: xlibmesa-gl (= ${Source-Version}), xlibs-dev, libc6-dev | libc-dev
> >  Conflicts: libgl-dev, libutahglx-dev, xlibmesa-dev (<< 4.2.1-5)
> >  Provides: libgl-dev
> >  Replaces: libgl-dev, libutahglx-dev, xlibmesa-dev (<< 4.2.1-5)
> 
> Is this really necessary? It means libgl1 packages built from DRI CVS
> will no longer be able to satisfy this dependency.

Can you spell out the problem a little more clearly for me?

Why is it *desirable* for libgl1 packages built from DRI CVS to satisfy
this dependency?

> And I can't build libgl-dev packages from there either because GLw is
> missing

Do you know why it is missing?

> (BTW, is GLw_pic supposed to be in xlibs-static-pic?).

I hadn't thought about it.

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