Re: source dependencies : virtual names

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,

	I think I was confused; I was still thinking binary
 depends. In the case of source packages, I think that most packages
 that compiled with libc5-dev will also compile with libc6-dev, and
 generally need only depend (this is sources we are talking about) on
 libc-dev. The *Binaries* still would depend explicitly on libc5/libc6
 as appropiate.


	In short: for source dependencies lic-dev is likely to be more
 appropriate than libc6-dev (except n pathological cases), binary
 dependencies are likely to have to be explicit.

	I'm sorry if I caused any confusion. Must be getting old and
 senile. 

	manoj
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Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>


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