Bug#631669: liblwt-ocaml-dev: undefined references to libev
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:34:46 +0200
Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org> wrote:
Ian> The problem is that the dependency on libev-dev is not versioned.
Ian> I had both libev3 and libev4 installed, plus libev-dev 3.x.
Stéphane> you have both stable and testing in your sources.list, and you
Stéphane> have libev-dev from stable, and liblwt-ocaml-dev from
Stéphane> testing. Are we supposed to support such a mix as a
Stéphane> development environment? Lwt is surely not the only package in
Stéphane> this situation...
This particular situation was an accident, there was no good reason for
me to not upgrade the libev-dev package. But there are many very real
reasons to keep stable in the mix. That is why CUT is needed.
So yes, I'd say that the fact the dependency is too loose to catch this
pernicious problem on a system configured this way is a bug. (I'm not
asking for "support" beyond fixing bugs, though) ;-)
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