Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

[Andy Hawkins <andy@gently.org.uk>]

Hi,

In article <[🔎] 20081209112117.9a1499b0.codehelp@debian.org>,
           Neil Williams<codehelp@debian.org> wrote:
> This "component" is a shared library and therefore a build dependency.
> If you are going to force a particular version, you should do it in
> Build-Depends.

> dpkg-shlibdeps will then work out the rest using any symbols files that
> may exist.=20

Ah Ok. So I should list the version in Build-depends, and then
$(shlibs:Depends) will do the 'right' thing?

> But you also need to answer Paul's question - why are you doing this?

Answered in response to his post.

Andy