Re: RFC: library conventions for libc5 and libc6 in hamm Take 4

[Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De>]

joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen) writes:

> >   5. Conflicts & Dependencies for hamm packages
> > 
> [..]
> > 
> >    The hamm libfoo package has to depend on libc6 and has to conflict
> >    with libfoo-dev and libc5-dev.
> 
> Are you sure here? I'd say you mean this:
> 
>     The hamm libfoo package has to depend on libc5 and has to conflict
>     with libfoo-dev.
> 
> - libfoo is libc5, so it should depend on libc5.
> - Yes, we should try and get rid of libc5-dev, but I'm not sure it's
>   the job of random libries to force users to do that: as far as
>   I can see, nothing breaks when the two are installed together.
> 
OK I will change the libc6 dependecy.
However we must not have any -dev package in hamm that is a
libc5-based package, i.e. libc5-dev may not be installed on a hamm
system. It will break lots of stuff.

        Helmut

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