Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:11:52PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> 
>  An example would be package foobar3 build-depending on libfoo3 (>=
>  2.10.2).  When built against libfoo3 2.12.0-2 which provides a symbols
>  file, the resulting binaries need symbols from libfoo3 (>= 2.8.7) (as
>  the symbols file say), the new system injects a dep on libfoo3 >=
>  max(2.10.2, 2.8.7) == 2.10.2.
>    If libfoo3 only provides shlibs and no symbol file and the shlibs
>  claim a dep on libfoo3 (>= 2.10), the system would inject a dep on
>  libfoo3 >= max(2.10.2, 2.10) == 2.10.2.

So you would need to build-depend on both libfoo-dev and libfoo3?


Kurt