On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:14:13PM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote:
>
> I went to update the package and I found that the situation has gotten
> much uglier. Now, the upstream author is releasing 6 different versions
> of the library. There are libc5 and libc6 versions for each of three
> different kinds of video hardware. All 6 packages provide the same
> library name (libglide2x.so). Further, none of them has a soname or
> even versioned links.
Have you talked to the upstream author about this? I suspect that
they might be sympathetic to the problems this causes. I'd love to
know why it is that they couldn't provide autodetection and such in
libglide and just recombine the packages...
> I'm disgusted by the whole mess. This is what I get for taking on a
> non-free package. The author is currently distributing in RPM format.
> I'd like to get the existing libglide2 package dropped from non-free and
> to point our users at alien and the RPMs distributed upstream. This
> isn't a great solution, but it's the best I have come up with. Can
> anybody suggest a better one?
libglide-voodoo:
Provides: libglide
Conflicts: libglide, libglide-voodoo2, libglide-voodoorush
libglide-voodoo2:
Provides: libglide
Conflicts: libglide, libglide-voodoo, libglide-voodoorush
libglide-voodoorush:
Provides: libglide
Conflicts: libglide, libglide-voodoo, libglide-voodoo2
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