Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:05:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Genralize it past library packages and this isn't really much of an > > option though. Something like debconf FE can break backwards > > compatability and yet has no soname, unfortunatly. > > So why don't we give it a "soname" ? "Depends: debconf-1 (>= 1.0.24)", eg? We're going to do just that once we rework debconf policy a bit. It will start at debconf-2 though. However, not all packages should do that right off, and this new field offers a good way to recover from lack of foresight. -- see shy jo
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