Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 16:11, Andrew Chadwick a écrit : > Would it make sense for these cases to be covered by extra debian > packages, perhaps with a -feature suffix to the name, which contain > concrete dependencies? That way the admin will be able to assure his > users that an upgrade won't break things. > Case in point: mutt's IMAPS capability depends on a specific version of > libgnutls5 being present, or it complains about a missing symbol and > hides your mail from you when you try to access a mailbox starting with > "imaps://". I have encountered this kind of problem with hdf5, which changes its ABI at every single binary version. You can solve this using a virtual package, say let libgnutls5 Provides: libgnutls-$version and mutt depend on that virtual package. Problem is, you need to rebuild all packages depending on such virtual packages at each upstream version bump, but there is not much choice. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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