Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
Ben Collins wrote:
> What we need is to not have infinite numbers of libgtk1.1.x libs in the
> distribution. Stick with libgtk1.1 and use shlibs to ensure things get
> recompiled against them. I would much rather have one lib and many
> programs that break on the next release than tons of libs _and_ still
> many broken programs as well as a mess on my system.
Why can't libgtk just have a shlibs file that generates dependancies like:
Depends: libgtk1.1 (>= current_version), libgtk1.1 (<< next_upstream_version)
All this requires is guessing what next_upstream_version will be. It will
cause some unnecessary overly strict dependancies, but it will ensure no
packages ever break when you upgrade libgtk1.1.
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