Re: XPM

[Edward Betts <edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 04 Mar, 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Hm, in the meantime I found out that there is a new upstream version.
> 
> Wouldn't it be less harmful if I made this new version with names
> changed - because xpm4g 3.4j-0.8 and libxpm4 3.4k-1 don't share any files
> (I think so, but I'll check). Everything that just needs libXpm.so.4.10
> works, and everything that just needs libXpm.so.4.11 works.

I like that one, go for it.

> BTW Adding that versioned provides feature in dpkg must be really hard.
> I've seen a lot of people complaining about it, but nothing was done.

What kinds problems were you having, when you tried to implement versioned 
provides?

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