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Re: Right way for calculating versioned dependencies?



On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:11:07PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:

> Okay, an example. scanssh-2.0 has a build dependency on libevent-dev (>=0.8-1).
> 
> When built, the Depends line is libevent1, which is a package built from
> libevent-dev. Problem is, the package doesn't seem to work with the version
> of libevent1 that's in testing, but it does work with the new libevent1 that
> was recently uploaded to unstable.
> 
> Are you saying that the shlibs information provided by the libevent-dev
> package is incorrect?

It depends on in what way it doesn't work.  Does your program fail to link
at runtime due to unresolved symbols, segfault, what?

-- 
 - mdz



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