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Re: source dependencies : virtual names



On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:

>  Think about it. You can only have one of them installed (if you need a
> libc5 you'll need an *-altdev name). And, as we see now, if a package
> depends on ncurses development files to compile, it doesn't care about
> which version. So I think it would be more natural to use unversioned
> names. This has also the advantage that it's always better handled the
> replacement of packages with the same name than with different names.

True, as long as the new version is backwards compatible.  However,
we have gone through one period involving upgrade from a previous
version of ncurses to a new and not backwards-compatible version
(when changing from termcap to terminfo).


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