Re: buildd and virtual (build) dependencies :(((
En réponse à Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:
> > None of the solution are the Right Thing. The Right
> > Thing is versioned provides and it does not exist
> > currently.
>
> That also is not right. I thinnk something more on the line of
> providing
> both a version and a API version or something like that, or playing
> more
> tricks with the version number, or even having the posibility to say
> that it is ok if the version is a subset of 3.06.1, that is all of
> 3.06.1.2, 3.06.1-1, etc. Which would be enough for us.
Well, sometimes it isn't. For example, when some ocaml is
buggy, you need to change the virtual provides, so
packages need to be rebuilt against it.
With versioned provides, you don't need to rebuild all the
time since you have version comparisons.
> > > I would much prefer fixing the auto-builders.
> > >
> > > BTW, do anyone know where the auto-builder source code is located.
> >
> > Sven, when James does not answer questions personally, the best
> > way to get an answer is to bring the problem publicaly on
> > debian-devel: someone will probably answer, give better
> > solutions and there are chances that James decide to answer
> > publicaly. I really advice you to do so.
>
> Well, i did write a second mail a day after the first, and got an
> _immediate_ response. It was not a good response though, so i think i
> screwed us on this one. I apologized immediately for sounding hastive
> or
> rude, though, but still, ...
So you have no more clues? Time to go for debian-devel then.
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Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
<jerome.marant@free.fr>
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