Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le jeudi 07 juin 2007 à 09:05 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> > Yes, and that's the problem:  I know the libgl shlibs to have been wrong in
> > certain corner cases involving uncommon symbols (whether those are
> > implementors adding their own extensions, or failing to implement the
> > standard, or just exposing symbols in the lib that aren't part of the API in
> > the headers, I don't know).
> 
> And how would the new system help ?

You could make "standard" symbols lead to dependencies on either libgl
package, while specific symbols would bring a dependency on the specific
package providing them.

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