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Re: source dependencies : virtual names



On Jul 23, Manoj Srivastava wrote
> 	How do you tell if a package depends on libc5 or libc6 or libc7?
>You use only virtual names, you loose the ability to work with binaty
>incompatible releases of libraries. This is a bad idea.

if a package depends on one version number, and it is known, that it
will not work with a different version, then it should depend on
the versioned name. but in most cases, a program needs any version of a
package, and in this situations the developer should use the names
without version.

default : use unversioned dependency
special : use versioned dependecy, if you know that your ptogramm will
		not work with other versions.

is this ok ?

andreas


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