Re: Platform complete!

[Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@riseup.net>]

Em Qua, 2009-10-07 às 23:49 +0100, Iain Lane escreveu:
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> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:07:43PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
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> >(One might argue that we should put at least >= version constraints in
> >the dependencies, to avoid having the platform migrate earlier that the
> >package version it was designed for. Not sure if we need it though)
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> One feature that upstream pushes is that by installing the 
> platform you know which versions of the libraries and tools you are 
> getting.
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> Of course problems come when applications force us to deviate, as
> happened with Darcs and -zlib recently.

I think we should keep all packages in sync with the platform.  In cases
like this, maybe we could create a new zlib package for darcs, and one
for the platform.

Greetings.
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