Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > What we need is to not have infinite numbers of libgtk1.1.x libs in the
> > distribution. Stick with libgtk1.1 and use shlibs to ensure things get
> > recompiled against them. I would much rather have one lib and many
> > programs that break on the next release than tons of libs _and_ still
> > many broken programs as well as a mess on my system.
>
> Why can't libgtk just have a shlibs file that generates dependancies like:
>
> Depends: libgtk1.1 (>= current_version), libgtk1.1 (<< next_upstream_version)
>
> All this requires is guessing what next_upstream_version will be. It
> will cause some unnecessary overly strict dependancies, but it will
> ensure no packages ever break when you upgrade libgtk1.1.
Nope; no reverse dependency checking in dpkg, remember?
[No, Jason, apt doesn't count, since not everyone uses it.]
--
James
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