On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:59:19PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 01:36:10PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > > > Is there some more restrictive versioning and dependancy scheme I could > > use? I tried setting shlibs so that packages would depend on =version > > instead of >=version, but that seems to be a bit too restrictive. > > Nice folks in IRC suggested me to Provide: libtagcoll-api-1.0 and > Depend: libtagcoll-api-1.0, then change the virtual package depend when > the API/ABI changes. > > It's a solution that I like very much and I want to post it here for the > records. This is a very bad idea, because it destroys versioned dependenies. And it's in violation of policy. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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