Re: Library packages: co-installability, build-depends, transitions
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Matthew Johnson wrote:
>> By this you mean we build-depend on a virtual package like libfoo-dev,
>> which is Provided by libfoo0-dev, libfoo1-dev and so on?
> Well, there's two ways of doing this in C libraries. Some provide
> versionned -dev packages and some don't. In the case of the unversionned
> ones then if you try and rebuild after a transition you will link
> against the new version, which may fail.
It may also succeed, and only break unpredictably at runtime because the API
did change...
Cheers,
Marcus
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