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Re: ∀lib: Debian(lib) >= Platform(lib)



Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 13:20 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e
Silva:
> Em Dom, 2009-08-16 às 20:00 +0200, Joachim Breitner escreveu:
> > B) Upload a libghc6-platform-dev package to Debian, patched to refer to
> > „our“ Version numbers. Makes it easy for people to build stuff against
> > it, but things might break when „our“ Versions are not fully compatible
> > with the one promised by the official platform.
> 
> Is it not a good idea to leave the version numbers unspecified in the packages
> that doesn't have the same version in Debian and in the platform?  What's the
> advantage of restricting to the available version in Debian?

I agree. By now, i’m of the opinion that a simple meta-debian-package,
without any ghc-pkg interaction, that pulls in the right -dev and binary
packages without any versioning should be fine.

Greetings,
Joachim

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