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



> 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.

Sure, I was only saying that I don't really believe in the statement
 " (new) libfoo has to conflict with libc5-dev. "
is needed.

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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