Re: testing, unstable, and dependencies

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

* Matt Zimmerman 

| On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:17:22PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
| 
| > This could be handled with conditional dependencies, see the old wishlist bug
| > against dpkg in the BTS.
| > 
| > Build-Depends: libfoo-dev (>>3)
| > Build-Depends-Cond: unstable -> libfoo-dev (>>4)
| > 
| > So maintainers could force unstable-autobuilders to wait for the new
| > libfoo-dev version, and allow all others to build with the old version.
| 
| If such a package would build with libfoo-dev (>>3), then it should not
| build-depend on libfoo-dev (>>4).  Then there is no problem.

The trend is going with packages named libfoo3-dev and libfoo4-dev
with both providing libfoo-dev.  If dpkg had versioned provides, a
package could build-dep on libfoo-dev (>= 3) and it'd Just Work.
However, we don't.

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