Re: inter libraries dependencies again

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:53:22AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>> > IMO we should fallback on >=/<< dependencies for build-dependencies and
>> > keep on using virtual names for dependencies.
>> But what about using only the >= dependencies and dropping the << ones ?
>
> [ I'm assuming that your question is related to build-dependencies ]
>
> Uhm ... well yes, we can drop the << and avoid some auto builders delay,
> but we still have to reupload a new package each time we like it to be
> rebuilt against a new library bumping the >= dependency ...
>
> IMO we can go for it, Jerome?, someone else?

I second this.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant

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