Re: help on creating a lib package
Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
> I am packaging imlib (image lib). It can use giflib which is
> non-free. I would like to make a ver that does and one that does
> not. Suggestions on how to do this?? Virtual package? A super and
> a minor package (one provides/overrides other)???
I'd suggest an `imlib-free' and `imlib-nonfree', which Conflicts: and
Replaces: each other and provide the virtual package `imlib'. The
shlibs file of each library would point to `imlib'. `svgalib' &
`svgalib-dummy' do something similar and the Conflicts: & Replaces:
mechanism works well there. By having things depend on a virtual
package `imlib' you have things much easier than the complex
dependency mess svgalib* has. HTH
--
James
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