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Re: Package name



On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:44:47PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:

> >The risk is that you can't install the new -dev package on a system that 
> >has
> >the old lib installed, because they conflict.  One normally wants to be 
> >able
> >to build and test binaries for a new library *before* purging the old
> >version of the library...

> But the -dev package always depends on the non-dev of the exact same 
> version. This means I cannot install the new version without upgrading 
> the library itself anyways.

> What am I missing here?

The fact that two versions of the library with different ABIs should be
*installable in parallel*.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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