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Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions



On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:58:29 +0000 (UTC)
Andy Hawkins <andy@gently.org.uk> wrote:

> >> I need to force the version of one particular component.
> >
> > Why is that?
> 
> Because that version of FLAC includes extra functionality that is
> detected at compile time. 

Then it is a build-dependency issue - ensure you have specified that
version in Build-Depends.

> If I compile a binary against the newer
> FLAC libraries, then I suspect that binary will fail to run with the
> old ones because this functionality isn't present.

dpkg-shlibdeps appears to disagree - either the symbols in FLAC are
wrong or your suspicion could be wrong. Are you talking about new
symbols in the FLAC library or bug fixes in existing functions?

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