Re: demoting a dependency
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:17:47PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 31, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > If you don't want to depend on libcomerr2, don't depend on it. It's not
> > because libkrb5-3 already depends on it that it's a proper thing to
> > remove the dependency that way. What happens when libkrb5-3 depends
> > on libcomerr3 ?
> Plenty of segfaults because both would provide the same unversioned
> symbols?
But this case is detectable via the package system *if* you aren't bypassing
dpkg-shlibdeps. If you do bypass dpkg-shlibdeps, no one will notice that
your package needs an upgrade at the same time.
It's more robust to leave the dep (--> recommends) on libcomerr2 in place.
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