Re: shlibs:Depends
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:30:15PM -0800, Britton <fsblk@aurora.uaf.edu> spake forth:
>
> > It actually works with tcl 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 you are right. So what about :
> >
> > Depends: tcl8.0 | tcl8.1 | tcl8.2
>
> Or mayby just depend on a version greater than 8.0, as you do with
> debhelper in you build depend. But Mayby tcl breaks backward
> compatability a lot and you thing it would be better without that, sort of
> a judgement call I guess.
<hat type="Tcl maintainer">
Couple of problems with this...
1) tcl8.1 doesn't exist in Debian
2) tcl breaks backwards compatability a *lot*
3) because of #2, there are separate packages for 8.0, 8.2, and 8.3;
therefore, a simple Depends: tcl (>= 8.0) will not work.
All in all, "Depends: tclsh | tcl8.2" should generally work for straightforward
scripts, as the language doesn't tend to change that much between releases,
just the API for the library and various internals. All of the tcl packages
Provide: tclsh, so that'll work for scripts which don't have any insanity
preventing them from working with all modern TCLs.
Note that lintian complains about depending only on a virtual package, and
while a quick glance doesn't find language in policy which forbids it, that
is just a quick glance ;).
</hat>
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