Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 12:13:56AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, that was my original suggestion, but some seemed to think it
> wouldn't solve the problem. I fail to see how it wouldn't.
It would solve a problem. However, it would disallow people from having
multiple versions of libgtk1.1 installed simultaneously, which they might
want to do for a variety of reasons (packages installed using different
versions, be they hand-compiled packages, old debian ones, debian ones
with a 'slow' maintainer, or completely hand-installed ones).
I am about to ask the list-masters to create debian-gtk-gnome.
Jules
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