On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:25:07AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> [040601 22:53]: > > -dev packages should *NOT* depend on other -dev packages unless their > > public .h files #include files from those other -dev packages (which > > generally shouldn't be the case). That whole crap was due to the lack > > of understanding of the problem and blindness to the proper solution > > (versioned symbols). > I agree that versioned symbols should be more often used, but one should > note that there are problems not solved by versioned symbols. Libraries > should not pass data structures of other libraries through and do other > ugly things like this, but this might still happen somewhere, so one > should be cautious. But that doesn't sound like a packaging issue to me. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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