Re: shlibs:Depends
OK, thanks for this good piece of advice.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:10:22PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote:
> 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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