Hi, Just FYI: Today at lunch I listened to some Ocaml maintainer dicussions. They are going to implement a hash-based dependency system: Library packages calculate a (short, 5-letter) hash over their interface. This is appended to the library name and put in the Provides. Depending libraries then Depend on that virtual package. I once proposed such a system for Haskell, but it was turned down, saying (IIRC) that dpkg might choke on such a large amount of virtual packages. I guess we can watch how it goes for the Ocaml guys and, in a while, see if this approach would be useful for us as well. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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