Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

[Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>]

Petteri Räty wrote:
>> I think we will need something similar to the shlibs system, no?

> Well why would they be any different for a binary distribution?

I don't know how Gentoo works, but it's not enough for us to know which ABI
version of a particular dependency we need, we also need the mapping of
that ABI to Debian packages to avoid upgrade problems.

For instance, if libfoo releases version 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1, where the ABI
changes at 2.0, then a package built against libfoo 2.1 should get a
versioned dependency on libfoo >= 2.0. That information has to be stored
somewhere, i.e., a shlibs file, so that the build process can figure it
out.

(Or am I missing something?)

Marcus