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Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps



Le dimanche 02 décembre 2007 à 19:35 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> I think there is a problem using build dependencies for that purpose:
> There are dozens of reasons why you want to build-depend on libfoo-dev
> >= version that do NOT involve working around bugs in the library at
> runtime. There are so many that it would just pollute a lot of
> dependencies for a few interesting cases, and would sadly end up going
> in the opposite way we are currently heading for with the addition of
> dpkg-gensymbols.

I can think of very few cases where you want to bump the
build-dependency without bumping the runtime dependency as well, and I
cannot think of cases where doing that could actually break something.

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