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Re: Right way for calculating versioned dependencies?



On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:09:24PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> Hmm. What about this case? Package P is linked against library
> package L. L has a bug which is fixed starting at a certain version, but
> doesn't require an ABI change.

In general, I find it isn't very useful to add dependencies on packages only
because a bug has been fixed, unless it actually makes the package
uninstallable.  Otherwise, it is enough that the bug is fixed.

-- 
 - mdz



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