On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:37:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> That said, i am not convinced the build dependencies do not cause
> problem also, let's say, i uploaded ocaml 3.06-13, but it has not yet
> been built for arch foo. then i upload lablgl 0.99.1 and set the build
> depends as you propose. That means i will have to use build depends
> ocaml (>= 3.06-13), ocaml (<< 3.07) or something such ?
>
> The ocaml (>= 3.06-13) is needed so that lablgl will not build on the
> older ocaml, and is what we achieved by doing the ocaml-3.06-1 thingy,
> right.
You are right, this can be a problem, but only great changes(TM)
require such a trick, just like the libdir transition. For great changes
all the packages have to be rebuilt anyway, right? ...
> So, what does everyone think, should we aim at a new policy entry,
> saying that for build dependencies, we depend on the real package, and
> use a single versioned dependency (of the kind >= 3.06-1, >= 3.06-13,
> >= 3.07-1) ?
IMO we should fallback on >=/<< dependencies for build-dependencies and
keep on using virtual names for dependencies.
Cheers.
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